Natural hazards · Butternut Valley

Butternut Valley, MN natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Butternut Valley comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 10 claims here since 1997.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Butternut Valley?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Butternut Valley to be higher than in 60% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding46%Cold waves21%Strong wind9%Tornadoes8%Drought7%Hail5%Everything else4%

By hazard

What Butternut Valley faces

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

Inland flooding

46% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 73% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Cold waves

21% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 64% of U.S. places

Recorded about 11 times a year in the area

Strong wind

9% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 98% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 89% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 9 years in the area

Drought

7% of expected damage

Recorded about 12 times a year in the area

Hail

5% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 82% 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 Butternut Valley flood?

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

10paid claims since 1997

$173Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19972026

Biggest named events

Severe flooding: 1 claim, $1K

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Blue Earth County.

Disasters that hit Butternut Valley

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Butternut ValleyDeclared for Blue Earth County only

Blue Earth County has had 20 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

Around Butternut Valley

Butternut Valley and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Butternut Valleymostly inland floodingHigh

Judsonmostly inland floodingHigh

Cambriamostly inland floodingHigh

Lincolnmostly inland floodingHigh

Lindenmostly 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. Butternut Valley covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Butternut Valley’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Butternut Valley. 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 Butternut Valley total about $2.3M 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.