Natural hazards · Sioux Creek

Sioux Creek, WI natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Sioux Creek?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Sioux Creek to be higher than in 50% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding38%Cold waves36%Tornadoes10%Hail6%Strong wind5%Everything else6%

By hazard

What Sioux Creek faces

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

Inland flooding

38% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 65% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Cold waves

36% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 20% of U.S. places

Recorded about 9 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

10% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 78% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 28 years in the area

Hail

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 91% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Strong wind

5% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 91% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 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 Sioux Creek flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Barron County.

Disasters that hit Sioux Creek

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for Barron County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Sioux Creek itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into Sioux CreekDeclared for Barron County only

Barron County has had 8 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and tornadoes.

Around Sioux Creek

Sioux Creek and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Sand Creekmostly inland floodingModerate

Wilsonmostly inland floodingModerate

Sioux Creekmostly inland floodingModerate

Prairie Lakemostly inland floodingModerate

Dovremostly inland floodingModerate

Dallasmostly cold wavesLow

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. Sioux Creek covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Sioux Creek’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Sioux Creek. 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 Sioux Creek total about $1.2M 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.