Natural hazards · Tainter

Tainter, WI natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Tainter?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Tainter to be higher than in 75% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding63%Cold waves14%Tornadoes10%Strong wind5%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Tainter faces

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

Inland flooding

63% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 89% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Cold waves

14% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 26% of U.S. places

Recorded about 9 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

10% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 82% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 22 years in the area

Strong wind

5% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 95% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Lower here

HailIce 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 Tainter flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Dunn County.

Disasters that hit Tainter

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into TainterDeclared for Dunn County only

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

Around Tainter

Tainter and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Taintermostly inland floodingHigh

Colfaxmostly inland floodingHigh

Otter Creekmostly inland floodingModerate

Shermanmostly inland floodingModerate

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. Tainter covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Tainter’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Tainter. 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 Tainter total about $4.5M 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.