Natural hazards · Richmond

Richmond, WI natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Richmond?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Richmond to be higher than in 36% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding49%Tornadoes18%Cold waves11%Strong wind11%Hail7%Everything else4%

By hazard

What Richmond faces

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

Inland flooding

49% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 44% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Tornadoes

18% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 83% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 35 years in the area

Cold waves

11% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 26% of U.S. places

Recorded about 9 times a year in the area

Strong wind

11% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 97% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Hail

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 87% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Lower here

Ice stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightningDrought

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Richmond flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: St. Croix County.

Disasters that hit Richmond

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for St. Croix County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Richmond itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into RichmondDeclared for St. Croix County only

St. Croix County has had 9 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and tornadoes.

Around Richmond

Richmond and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Star Prairiemostly inland floodingModerate

St. Josephmostly inland floodingModerate

Richmondmostly inland floodingLow

Erin Prairiemostly inland floodingLow

New Richmondmostly inland floodingLow

Warrenmostly inland floodingLow

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. Richmond 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 Richmond’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Richmond. 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.