Natural hazards · Collegeville

Collegeville, MN natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Collegeville?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Collegeville to be higher than in 27% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding49%Tornadoes18%Cold waves10%Strong wind9%Hail8%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Collegeville faces

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

Inland flooding

49% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 37% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

18% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 82% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 37 years in the area

Cold waves

10% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 35% of U.S. places

Recorded about 13 times a year in the area

Strong wind

9% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 93% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Hail

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 81% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 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 Collegeville flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Stearns County.

Disasters that hit Collegeville

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into CollegevilleDeclared for Stearns County only

Stearns County has had 11 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

Around Collegeville

Collegeville and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Wakefieldmostly inland floodingHigh

Farmingmostly inland floodingModerate

Avonmostly inland floodingModerate

Collegevillemostly inland floodingLow

St. Josephmostly 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. Collegeville covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Collegeville’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Collegeville. 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 Collegeville total about $1.4M 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.