Natural hazards · Sheboygan Falls

Sheboygan Falls, WI natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Sheboygan Falls comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 1979. 3 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Sheboygan Falls?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Sheboygan Falls to be higher than in 26% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding60%Cold waves15%Tornadoes14%Hail6%Everything else5%

By hazard

What Sheboygan Falls faces

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

Inland flooding

60% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 45% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Cold waves

15% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 35% of U.S. places

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

14% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 69% of U.S. places

Hail

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 85% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingDroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Sheboygan Falls flood?

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

1paid claims since 1979

$4Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19792026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Sheboygan County.

Disasters that hit Sheboygan Falls

3 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Sheboygan Falls itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the City of Sheboygan Falls.

Brought FEMA money into Sheboygan FallsDeclared for Sheboygan County only

2008

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

11 households applied for aid $5K aid approved $41K to the City of Sheboygan Falls for repairs

2004

Severe Storms and Flooding

1 household applied for aid

2000

Snow

$6K to the City of Sheboygan Falls for repairs

Sheboygan County has had 9 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Sheboygan Falls

Sheboygan Falls and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Limamostly inland floodingLow

Sheboygan Fallsmostly inland floodingLow

Kohlermostly inland floodingVery low

Wilsonmostly inland floodingVery low

Sheboygan Fallsmostly 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. Sheboygan Falls covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Sheboygan Falls’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Sheboygan Falls. 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 Sheboygan Falls total about $2.2M 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.