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Alden, MN natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Alden comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. 7 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

How exposed is Alden?

40
Moderate
vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Alden to be higher than in 40% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding34%Tornadoes21%Drought19%Cold waves10%Strong wind8%Hail5%Everything else2%
By hazard

What Alden faces

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

Inland flooding

34% of expected damage
Below average · higher than 40% of U.S. places
Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

21% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 98% of U.S. places
Recorded about once every 8 years in the area

Drought

19% of expected damage
Recorded about 14 times a year in the area

Cold waves

10% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 66% of U.S. places
Recorded about 10 times a year in the area

Strong wind

8% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 96% of U.S. places
Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Hail

5% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 84% of U.S. places
Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lower here

Ice stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

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 Alden flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured
of all homes
are insured
No community discount. Alden isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.
Insurance rates: Freeborn County.
Disasters that hit Alden

7 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into AldenDeclared for Freeborn County only
2024

Severe Storms and Flooding

8 households applied for aid $14K aid approved
2019

Severe Winter Storm, Straight-Line Winds, and Flooding

$13K to the City of Alden for repairs
2016

Severe Storms and Flooding

6 households applied for aid $13K aid approved
2014

Severe Storms, Straight-Line Winds, Flooding, Landslides, and Mudslides

$16K to the City of Alden for repairs
2013

Severe Storms, Straight-Line Winds, and Flooding

$7K to the City of Alden for repairs
2010

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

$6K to the City of Alden for repairs
2004

Severe Storms and Flooding

31 households applied for aid $55K aid approved $2K to the City of Alden for repairs
Freeborn County has had 19 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.
Around Alden

Alden and the towns around it

Carlston: Moderate, mostly inland floodingAlden: Moderate, mostly inland floodingFreeborn: Moderate, mostly inland floodingManchester: Moderate, mostly inland floodingClark: Low, mostly inland floodingConger: Moderate, mostly inland floodingMansfield: Moderate, mostly inland floodingPickerel Lake: Moderate, mostly inland floodingFoster: Moderate, mostly inland floodingAlden: Moderate, mostly inland flooding AldenCarlstonAlden
Very lowLowModerateHighVery high
Aldenmostly inland floodingModerate
Carlstonmostly inland floodingModerate
Aldenmostly inland floodingModerate
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. Alden 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 Alden’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Alden. 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.

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