Lincoln County, WI Tornado Risk & Storm Shelter Cost
Lincoln County's tornado history, by the numbers
Since 1955, NOAA has logged 25 tornado tracks crossing Lincoln County - one about every 3 years, which lands it in our Elevated band. Nationally, Lincoln County ranks at the 60th percentile for tornado frequency. Wisconsin has 72 counties in this dataset; Lincoln County ranks 35 of them by frequency.
Lincoln County's EF4-5 history
Lincoln County's record has no EF4-5 tornado - its 25 tracks split 19 weak and 6 significant. That does not rule one out in the future, only that none has been recorded since 1950.
What a storm shelter costs near Lincoln County
For a Lincoln 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
Power loss after a tornado outbreak in Wisconsin often reaches homes the storm itself never touched. A battery-backup unit covers the outage without the fuel and venting a generator needs.
Read this before you rely on it
This is a county-level figure, not a per-address probability. Lincoln County covers about 879 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. Lincoln County has about 28,461 residents.