Kewaunee County, WI Tornado Risk & Storm Shelter Cost
Kewaunee County, WI: what NOAA's tornado record says
Since 1969, NOAA has logged 11 tornado tracks crossing Kewaunee County - one about every 6.9 years, which lands it in our Low band. Nationally, Kewaunee County ranks at the 31st percentile for tornado frequency. Among 72 Wisconsin counties in this dataset, Kewaunee County ranks 59 for how often a tornado touches down.
Kewaunee County's EF4-5 history
Kewaunee County's record has no EF4-5 tornado - its 11 tracks split 9 weak and 2 significant. That does not rule one out in the future, only that none has been recorded since 1950.
What a storm shelter costs near Kewaunee County
For a Kewaunee County homeowner, budget $2,890-$13,280 for a shelter or safe room ($7,645 typical) - this pass found no Wisconsin-specific rebate on top of FEMA's underlying 75% national cost-share program.
The outage nobody plans for
20,751 people live in Kewaunee County, and a tornado outbreak's power loss usually reaches far more of Wisconsin than the tracks themselves touch. A portable battery unit is the faster, no-fuel way to bridge that outage.
Read this before you rely on it
This is a county-level figure, not a per-address probability. Kewaunee County covers about 342 square miles, so a single touch here counts the same as a single touch in a county a fraction of that size. Pre-radar-era records (before the 1990s) are also documented by NOAA as undercounting weaker tornadoes in sparsely-instrumented areas. Kewaunee County has about 20,751 residents.