Natural hazards · Cormorant

Cormorant, MN natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Cormorant comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. 2 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Cormorant?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Cormorant to be higher than in 34% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding64%Tornadoes13%Cold waves7%Everything else16%

By hazard

What Cormorant faces

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

Inland flooding

64% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 51% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

13% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 84% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 9 years in the area

Cold waves

7% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 72% of U.S. places

Recorded about 17 times a year in the area

Lower here

HailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

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 Cormorant flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Becker County.

Disasters that hit Cormorant

2 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into CormorantDeclared for Becker County only

2009

Severe Storms and Flooding

$9K to the Township of Cormorant for repairs

2002

Severe Storms, Flooding and Tornadoes

$18K to the Township of Cormorant for repairs

Becker County has had 17 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

Around Cormorant

Cormorant and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Parkemostly inland floodingVery high

Eglonmostly inland floodingVery high

Cormorantmostly inland floodingLow

Lake Parkmostly inland floodingLow

Scamblermostly inland floodingLow

Lake Eunicemostly inland floodingVery low

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. Cormorant is smaller than a census tract, so it shares the figures of the tract around its center.

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

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.