Wood County, WI Tornado Risk & Storm Shelter Cost
Wood County, WI: what NOAA's tornado record says
Since 1964, NOAA has logged 19 tornado tracks crossing Wood County - one about every 4 years, which lands it in our Moderate band. Nationally, Wood County ranks at the 49th percentile for tornado frequency. Among 72 Wisconsin counties in this dataset, Wood County ranks 46 for how often a tornado touches down.
Wood County's EF4-5 history
Wood County's record has no EF4-5 tornado - its 19 tracks split 13 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 Wood County
For a Wood 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
73,943 people live in Wood 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. Wood County covers about 793 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. Wood County has about 73,943 residents.