Natural hazards · Waukechon

Waukechon, WI natural hazards

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

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Waukechon to be higher than in 12% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves and inland flooding.

Cold waves45%Inland flooding32%Tornadoes11%Everything else13%

By hazard

What Waukechon faces

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

Cold waves

45% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 21% of U.S. places

Recorded about 7 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

32% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 21% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Tornadoes

11% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 77% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 34 years in the area

Lower here

HailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesDroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Waukechon flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Shawano County.

Disasters that hit Waukechon

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into WaukechonDeclared for Shawano County only

Shawano County has had 6 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Waukechon

Waukechon and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Washingtonmostly inland floodingModerate

Shawanomostly cold wavesModerate

Belle Plainemostly inland floodingLow

Navarinomostly cold wavesVery low

Waukechonmostly cold wavesVery low

Hartlandmostly cold wavesVery 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. Waukechon 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 Waukechon’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Waukechon. 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.