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Wisconsin disaster statistics
Wisconsin's federal declarations, flood claims and tornado history, charted from FEMA and NOAA data.
Federal major disasters · Wisconsin
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Federal major-disaster (DR) declarations in Wisconsin since 1965 — 31st-most of the 51 states and DC, and 1.6% of the 2,920 declared nationwide.
Source: FEMA OpenFEMA · 1965–2025
Major-disaster declarations in Wisconsin, per year
Major-disaster (DR) declarations by year, 1965–2025 (61 years shown; years with none are drawn as zero). Since 1965, Wisconsin accounts for 1.6% of all US major-disaster declarations — 31st of the 51 states and DC. The US as a whole averages about 57 per state.
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Methodology & reuse
Every Wisconsin figure above is a real, published number aggregated from a federal public-domain dataset — never spun or estimated. Declarations come from FEMA's OpenFEMA DisasterDeclarationsSummaries (one declaration = one distinct disaster number; a multi-state disaster counts once in each affected state). Flood claims are the NFIP claims record; severe-weather and tornado figures are NOAA NCEI Storm Events (tornado counts are county segments, so they run above official tornado totals); hurricane strikes are NOAA's best-track landfall record; wildfire declarations are FEMA Fire Management Assistance (FMAG) grants.
“Compared to the US” lines use the same dataset on both sides: a share is this state's count divided by the national total; a rank orders the 51 states and DC (or, for hurricanes and FMAG, only the states that carry any record); the flood-payout comparison is this state's average paid claim against the national average. Where Wisconsin has no record for a peril, that stat is simply omitted rather than shown as zero-padded prose.
The underlying datasets are US-government public domain; our charts and tables are licensed CC BY 4.0 — reuse them with attribution to DisasterStatus.
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DisasterStatus, “Wisconsin disaster & property damage statistics” (2026). https://disasterstatus.com/statistics/state/wi
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