Natural hazards · Wausaukee

Wausaukee, WI natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Wausaukee comes from cold waves, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Wausaukee?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Wausaukee to be higher than in 52% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves and inland flooding.

Cold waves52%Inland flooding42%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Wausaukee faces

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

Cold waves

52% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 63% of U.S. places

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

42% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

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 Wausaukee flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Marinette County.

Disasters that hit Wausaukee

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Wausaukee itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the Village of Wausaukee.

Brought FEMA money into WausaukeeDeclared for Marinette County only

2002

Severe Storms and Flooding

$6K to the Village of Wausaukee for repairs

Marinette County has had 5 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and hurricanes.

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. Wausaukee 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 Wausaukee’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Village of Wausaukee. 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.