Natural hazards · Arbo

Arbo, MN natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Arbo comes from cold waves, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Arbo?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Arbo to be higher than in 37% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves and inland flooding.

Cold waves43%Inland flooding43%Strong wind5%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Arbo faces

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

Cold waves

43% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 66% of U.S. places

Recorded about 17 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

43% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 68% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Strong wind

5% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 15% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat 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 Arbo flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Itasca County.

Disasters that hit Arbo

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into ArboDeclared for Itasca County only

1999

Severe Storms, Winds, and Flooding

$3K to the Township of Arbo for repairs

Itasca County has had 13 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Arbo

Arbo and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Lawrencemostly inland floodingHigh

Wabanamostly inland floodingModerate

Arbomostly cold wavesLow

Taconitemostly cold wavesLow

Grand Rapidsmostly cold wavesLow

Colerainemostly cold wavesLow

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