Natural hazards · Breitung

Breitung, MN natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Breitung comes from cold waves, 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 Breitung?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Breitung to be higher than in 43% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves and inland flooding.

Cold waves55%Inland flooding37%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Breitung faces

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

Cold waves

55% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 75% of U.S. places

Recorded about 17 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

37% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 71% of U.S. places

Recorded about once 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 Breitung flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: St. Louis County.

Disasters that hit Breitung

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into BreitungDeclared for St. Louis County only

St. Louis County has had 15 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

Around Breitung

Breitung and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Greenwoodmostly inland floodingHigh

Breitungmostly cold wavesModerate

Towermostly cold wavesModerate

Eagles Nestmostly cold wavesModerate

Kuglermostly 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. Breitung covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Breitung’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Breitung. 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 Breitung total about $1.5M 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.