Natural hazards · Spring Prairie

Spring Prairie, WI natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Spring Prairie comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 2017. 4 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Spring Prairie?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Spring Prairie to be higher than in 34% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding58%Tornadoes16%Cold waves12%Hail7%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Spring Prairie faces

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

Inland flooding

58% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 51% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

16% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 27 years in the area

Cold waves

12% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 31% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Hail

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 88% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Spring Prairie flood?

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

1paid claims since 2017

$28Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20172026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Walworth County.

Disasters that hit Spring Prairie

4 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Spring Prairie itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the Town of Spring Prairie.

Brought FEMA money into Spring PrairieDeclared for Walworth County only

2011

Severe Winter Storm and Snowstorm

$10K to the Town of Spring Prairie for repairs

2008

Record Snow and Near Record Snow

$4K to the Town of Spring Prairie for repairs

2000

Snow

$4K to the Town of Spring Prairie for repairs

2000

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

$2K to the Town of Spring Prairie for repairs

Walworth County has had 11 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often winter storms and severe storms.

Around Spring Prairie

Spring Prairie and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Rochestermostly inland floodingModerate

Burlingtonmostly inland floodingModerate

Spring Prairiemostly inland floodingLow

Burlingtonmostly inland floodingLow

East Troymostly inland floodingLow

Lyonsmostly inland floodingLow

Lafayettemostly 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. Spring Prairie covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Spring Prairie’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Spring Prairie. 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 Spring Prairie total about $1.6M 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.