Natural hazards · Springfield

Springfield, WI natural hazards

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

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Springfield to be higher than in 49% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves and inland flooding.

Cold waves36%Inland flooding34%Hail11%Tornadoes10%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Springfield faces

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

Cold waves

36% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 36% of U.S. places

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

34% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 56% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Hail

11% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

10% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 12 years 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 Springfield flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Marquette County.

Disasters that hit Springfield

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into SpringfieldDeclared for Marquette County only

Marquette County has had 7 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Springfield

Springfield and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Colomamostly inland floodingModerate

Springfieldmostly cold wavesModerate

Newtonmostly cold wavesModerate

Westfieldmostly cold wavesModerate

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