Natural hazards · Minneapolis

Minneapolis, KS natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Minneapolis comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. 3 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

FEMA National Risk Index, December 2025 · OpenFEMA claims, aid & declarations

Expected damage

How exposed is Minneapolis?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Minneapolis to be higher than in 79% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding47%Tornadoes16%Ice storms14%Hail9%Strong wind6%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Minneapolis faces

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

Inland flooding

47% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 88% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

16% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 91% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Ice storms

14% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 96% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Hail

9% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 92% of U.S. places

Recorded about 9 times a year in the area

Strong wind

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 95% of U.S. places

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Lower here

Winter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightningDrought

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 Minneapolis flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Ottawa County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

2storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Minneapolis

3 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Minneapolis itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the City of Minneapolis.

Brought FEMA money into MinneapolisDeclared for Ottawa County only

2024

Severe Winter Storm

$22K to the City of Minneapolis for repairs

2007

Severe Winter Storms

$38K to the City of Minneapolis for repairs

2007

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

32 households applied for aid $43K aid approved

Ottawa County has had 15 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Minneapolis

Minneapolis and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Minneapolismostly inland floodingHigh

Centermostly inland floodingHigh

Concordmostly inland floodingHigh

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. Minneapolis 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 Minneapolis’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Minneapolis. 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.