Natural hazards · Webb Lake

Webb Lake, WI natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Webb Lake comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low 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 Webb Lake?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Webb Lake to be higher than in 20% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding53%Cold waves28%Everything else19%

By hazard

What Webb Lake faces

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

Inland flooding

53% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 42% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Cold waves

28% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 67% of U.S. places

Recorded about 10 times 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 Webb Lake flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Burnett County.

Disasters that hit Webb Lake

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Webb Lake itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the Town of Webb Lake.

Brought FEMA money into Webb LakeDeclared for Burnett County only

2016

Severe Storms and Flooding

$45K to the Town of Webb Lake for repairs

Burnett County has had 8 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Webb Lake

Webb Lake and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Chicogmostly inland floodingLow

Webb Lakemostly inland floodingLow

Swissmostly inland floodingLow

Blainemostly inland floodingLow

Scottmostly inland floodingLow

Jacksonmostly inland floodingLow

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