Natural hazards · Crooks

Crooks, MN natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Crooks comes from inland flooding, 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 Crooks?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Crooks to be higher than in 44% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding45%Cold waves15%Drought11%Strong wind9%Hail8%Tornadoes7%Everything else6%

By hazard

What Crooks faces

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

Inland flooding

45% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 58% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Cold waves

15% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 22% of U.S. places

Recorded about 12 times a year in the area

Drought

11% of expected damage

Recorded about 8 times a year in the area

Strong wind

9% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 96% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Hail

8% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 86% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 6 years 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 Crooks flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Renville County.

Disasters that hit Crooks

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into CrooksDeclared for Renville County only

Renville County has had 18 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

Around Crooks

Crooks and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Crooksmostly inland floodingModerate

Winfieldmostly inland floodingModerate

Ericsonmostly inland floodingModerate

Emmetmostly inland floodingLow

Hollandmostly 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. Crooks 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 Crooks’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Crooks. 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.