Natural hazards · Silver Cliff

Silver Cliff, WI natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Silver Cliff comes from cold waves, 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 Silver Cliff?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Silver Cliff to be higher than in 32% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves and inland flooding.

Cold waves54%Inland flooding39%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Silver Cliff faces

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

Cold waves

54% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 7 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

39% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 59% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

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 Silver Cliff flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Marinette County.

Disasters that hit Silver Cliff

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for Marinette County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Silver Cliff itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into Silver CliffDeclared for Marinette County only

Marinette County has had 5 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and hurricanes.

Around Silver Cliff

Silver Cliff and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Stephensonmostly cold wavesModerate

Silver Cliffmostly cold wavesLow

Athelstanemostly cold wavesLow

Goodmanmostly cold wavesLow

Lakewoodmostly inland floodingLow

Wabenomostly cold wavesVery low

Blackwellmostly cold wavesVery 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. Silver Cliff 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 Silver Cliff’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Silver Cliff. 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.