Natural hazards · Presque Isle

Presque Isle, WI natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Presque Isle comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community.

FEMA National Risk Index, December 2025 · OpenFEMA claims, aid & declarations

Expected damage

How exposed is Presque Isle?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Presque Isle to be higher than in 16% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding44%Cold waves43%Strong wind5%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Presque Isle faces

Each hazard’s share of the damage FEMA expects here, and how that compares with the rest of the country.

Inland flooding

44% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 40% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Cold waves

43% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 66% of U.S. places

Recorded about 9 times a year in the area

Strong wind

5% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 63% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesDroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic activity

Flood risk changes street by street. Check a specific address on FEMA’s flood map, and ask about flood insurance before you buy.

Flood insurance claims

Does Presque Isle flood?

FEMA's records show no paid flood insurance claims in Presque Isle.

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Presque Isle isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.

Insurance rates: Vilas County.

Disasters that hit Presque Isle

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for Vilas County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Presque Isle itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into Presque IsleDeclared for Vilas County only

Vilas County has had 4 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and hurricanes.

Around Presque Isle

Presque Isle and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Winchestermostly inland floodingLow

Boulder Junctionmostly inland floodingLow

Presque Islemostly inland floodingVery low

Land O'Lakesmostly inland floodingVery low

Mareniscomostly inland floodingVery low

Bessemermostly inland floodingVery low

About these numbers

How to read this page

An average, not a forecastFEMA’s National Risk Index estimates the damage 18 kinds of natural hazards cause in a typical year, from decades of records and models. A quiet decade can follow a bad year.

Compared by rate“Higher than N%” compares yearly damage as a share of what’s here, so a big city isn’t rated riskier just for having more buildings. Presque Isle is smaller than a census tract, so it shares the figures of the tract around its center.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Presque Isle’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Presque Isle. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

Sources: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025); OpenFEMA: NFIP redacted claims, multiple-loss properties, community status book and residential penetration rates, housing assistance (owners and renters), public assistance funded projects, hazard mitigation properties and disaster declarations. Census tracts: U.S. Census Bureau.