Natural hazards · Audubon

Audubon, MN natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Audubon comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Audubon?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Audubon to be higher than in 19% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding61%Tornadoes15%Cold waves8%Everything else16%

By hazard

What Audubon faces

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

Inland flooding

61% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 30% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

15% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 79% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 18 years in the area

Cold waves

8% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 72% of U.S. places

Recorded about 17 times a year in the area

Lower here

HailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesDroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Audubon flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Becker County.

Disasters that hit Audubon

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for Becker County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Audubon itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into AudubonDeclared for Becker County only

Becker County has had 17 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

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