Natural hazards · Vandenbroek

Vandenbroek, WI natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Vandenbroek?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Vandenbroek to be higher than in 8% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding42%Cold waves30%Tornadoes14%Hail6%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Vandenbroek faces

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

Inland flooding

42% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 19% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Cold waves

30% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 25% of U.S. places

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

14% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 61% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 48 years in the area

Hail

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 84% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingDroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Vandenbroek flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Outagamie County.

Disasters that hit Vandenbroek

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into VandenbroekDeclared for Outagamie County only

Outagamie County has had 9 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

Around Vandenbroek

Vandenbroek and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Kaukaunamostly inland floodingVery low

Freedommostly inland floodingVery low

Vandenbroekmostly inland floodingVery low

Kaukaunamostly inland floodingVery low

Appletonmostly cold wavesVery low

Little Chutemostly inland floodingVery low

Grand Chutemostly inland floodingVery 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. Vandenbroek 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 Vandenbroek’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Vandenbroek. 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.