Natural hazards · Blue Mounds

Blue Mounds, MN natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Blue Mounds comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 3 claims here since 2001.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Blue Mounds?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Blue Mounds to be higher than in 72% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding58%Cold waves16%Hail7%Tornadoes6%Strong wind6%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Blue Mounds faces

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

Inland flooding

58% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 88% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Cold waves

16% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 61% of U.S. places

Recorded about 14 times a year in the area

Hail

7% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 41% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 74% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Strong wind

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 91% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Lower here

Ice 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 Blue Mounds flood?

Every paid claim on a federal flood insurance policy in Blue Mounds, from FEMA’s records.

3paid claims since 2001

$23Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20012026

Biggest named events

Severe flooding: 1 claim, $5K

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Pope County.

Disasters that hit Blue Mounds

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Blue MoundsDeclared for Pope County only

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

Around Blue Mounds

Blue Mounds and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Blue Moundsmostly inland floodingHigh

Barsnessmostly inland floodingHigh

Langheimostly inland floodingHigh

Waldenmostly inland floodingHigh

Glenwoodmostly 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. Blue Mounds covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Blue Mounds’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Blue Mounds. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

FEMA’s expected losses across Blue Mounds total about $2.2M a year, counting buildings, people and crops.

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.