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Natural hazards · Brush Creek

Brush Creek, MN natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Brush Creek 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 Brush Creek?

54
Moderate
vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Brush Creek to be higher than in 54% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and drought.

Inland flooding39%Drought22%Cold waves12%Tornadoes11%Strong wind8%Hail5%Everything else3%
By hazard

What Brush Creek faces

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

Inland flooding

39% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 61% of U.S. places
Recorded about once a year in the area

Drought

22% of expected damage
Recorded about 13 times a year in the area

Cold waves

12% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 67% of U.S. places
Recorded about 11 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

11% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 97% of U.S. places
Recorded about once every 5 years 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

5% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 83% of U.S. places
Recorded about 4 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 Brush Creek flood?

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

of all homes
are insured
No community discount. Brush Creek isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.
Insurance rates: Faribault County.
Disasters that hit Brush Creek

7 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into Brush CreekDeclared for Faribault County only
2024

Severe Storms and Flooding

$31K to the Township of Brush Creek for repairs
2019

Severe Winter Storm, Straight-Line Winds, and Flooding

$8K to the Township of Brush Creek for repairs
2014

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

$11K to the Township of Brush Creek for repairs
2010

Severe Storms and Flooding

$7K to the Township of Brush Creek for repairs
2004

Severe Storms and Flooding

$11K to the Township of Brush Creek for repairs
2001

Severe Winter Storms, Flooding, and Tornadoes

$7K to the Township of Brush Creek for repairs
2000

Severe Storms and Flooding

$766 to the Township of Brush Creek for repairs
Faribault County has had 20 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.
Around Brush Creek

Brush Creek and the towns around it

Walnut Lake: Low, mostly inland floodingSeely: Moderate, mostly inland floodingEmerald: Moderate, mostly inland floodingFoster: Moderate, mostly inland floodingMinnesota Lake: Low, mostly inland floodingBarber: Low, mostly inland floodingClark: Low, mostly inland floodingKiester: Moderate, mostly inland floodingRome: Moderate, mostly inland floodingBlue Earth City: High, mostly inland floodingFrost: Moderate, mostly inland floodingAlden: Moderate, mostly inland floodingBrush Creek: Moderate, mostly inland flooding Brush CreekWalnut LakeSeelyEmeraldFoster
Very lowLowModerateHighVery high
Brush Creekmostly inland floodingModerate
Seelymostly inland floodingModerate
Emeraldmostly inland floodingModerate
Fostermostly inland floodingModerate
Walnut Lakemostly 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. Brush Creek covers 1 census tract, combined by population.
Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Brush Creek’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Brush Creek. 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 Brush Creek total about $2.8M 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.

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