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Natural hazards · Bath

Bath, MN natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Bath 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 Bath?

40
Moderate
vs. U.S. communities

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

Inland flooding33%Drought25%Tornadoes17%Cold waves9%Strong wind8%Hail6%Everything else2%
By hazard

What Bath faces

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

Inland flooding

33% of expected damage
Below average · higher than 42% of U.S. places
Recorded about once a year in the area

Drought

25% of expected damage
Recorded about 14 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

17% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 97% of U.S. places
Recorded about once every 7 years in the area

Cold waves

9% 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 97% of U.S. places
Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Hail

6% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 85% of U.S. places
Recorded about 5 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 Bath flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured
of all homes
are insured
No community discount. Bath 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 Bath

7 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into BathDeclared for Freeborn County only
2019

Severe Winter Storm, Straight-Line Winds, and Flooding

$72K to the Township of Bath for repairs
2016

Severe Storms and Flooding

$15K to the Township of Bath for repairs
2014

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

$19K to the Township of Bath for repairs
2010

Severe Storms and Flooding

$7K to the Township of Bath for repairs
2010

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

$9K to the Township of Bath for repairs
2004

Severe Storms and Flooding

$12K to the Township of Bath for repairs
2000

Severe Storms and Flooding

$13K to the Township of Bath for repairs
Freeborn County has had 19 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.
Around Bath

Bath and the towns around it

Clarks Grove: Moderate, mostly inland floodingBancroft: Low, mostly inland floodingGeneva: Moderate, mostly inland floodingHartland: Moderate, mostly inland floodingManchester: Moderate, mostly inland floodingAlbert Lea: Low, mostly inland floodingAlbert Lea: Low, mostly inland floodingRiceland: Moderate, mostly inland floodingHollandale: Moderate, mostly inland floodingNewry: Moderate, mostly inland floodingFreeborn: Moderate, mostly inland floodingNew Richland: Moderate, mostly inland floodingPickerel Lake: Moderate, mostly inland floodingCarlston: Moderate, mostly inland floodingBath: Moderate, mostly inland flooding BathClarks GroveBancroftGenevaHartlandManchester
Very lowLowModerateHighVery high
Genevamostly inland floodingModerate
Bathmostly inland floodingModerate
Clarks Grovemostly inland floodingModerate
Hartlandmostly inland floodingModerate
Manchestermostly inland floodingModerate
Bancroftmostly inland floodingLow
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. Bath 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 Bath’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Bath. 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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