Natural hazards · Bearville

Bearville, MN natural hazards

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

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

How exposed is Bearville?

56
Moderate
vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Bearville to be higher than in 56% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding60%Cold waves31%Everything else9%
By hazard

What Bearville faces

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

Inland flooding

60% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 82% of U.S. places
Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Cold waves

31% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 67% of U.S. places
Recorded about 17 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce 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 Bearville flood?

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

of all homes
are insured
No community discount. Bearville 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 Bearville

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into BearvilleDeclared for Itasca County only
Itasca County has had 13 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.
Around Bearville

Bearville and the towns around it

French: Moderate, mostly cold wavesMorcom: Moderate, mostly cold wavesCarpenter: Moderate, mostly inland floodingSturgeon: Moderate, mostly cold wavesBearville: Moderate, mostly inland flooding BearvilleFrenchMorcomCarpenter
Very lowLowModerateHighVery high
Bearvillemostly inland floodingModerate
Carpentermostly inland floodingModerate
Frenchmostly cold wavesModerate
Morcommostly cold wavesModerate
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. Bearville 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 Bearville’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Bearville. 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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