Natural hazards · Rib Mountain

Rib Mountain, WI natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Rib Mountain comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 2010.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Rib Mountain?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Rib Mountain to be higher than in 48% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding52%Cold waves35%Tornadoes6%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Rib Mountain faces

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

Inland flooding

52% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 71% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Cold waves

35% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 21% of U.S. places

Recorded about 9 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 60% of U.S. places

Lower here

HailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

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 Rib Mountain flood?

Every paid claim on a federal flood insurance policy in Rib Mountain, from FEMA’s records.

1paid claims since 2010

$1Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20102026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Marathon County.

Disasters that hit Rib Mountain

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for Marathon County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Rib Mountain itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into Rib MountainDeclared for Marathon County only

Marathon County has had 10 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Rib Mountain

Rib Mountain and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Mosineemostly inland floodingModerate

Rib Mountainmostly inland floodingModerate

Stettinmostly inland floodingModerate

Marathonmostly inland floodingLow

Rothschildmostly inland floodingLow

Wausaumostly cold wavesLow

Schofieldmostly 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. Rib Mountain covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Rib Mountain’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Village of Rib Mountain. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

FEMA’s expected losses across Rib Mountain total about $4.2M a year, counting buildings, people and crops.

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.