Natural hazards · Delavan

Delavan, MN natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Delavan comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 3 claims here since 2005. 3 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Delavan?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Delavan to be higher than in 29% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and drought.

Inland flooding33%Drought18%Cold waves16%Tornadoes12%Strong wind9%Hail6%Everything else5%

By hazard

What Delavan faces

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

Inland flooding

33% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 27% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Drought

18% of expected damage

Recorded about 13 times a year in the area

Cold waves

16% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 67% of U.S. places

Recorded about 11 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

12% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 92% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 11 years in the area

Strong wind

9% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 97% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Hail

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 84% 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 Delavan flood?

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

3paid claims since 2005

$12Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20052026

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Delavan 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 Delavan

3 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into DelavanDeclared for Faribault County only

2010

Severe Storms and Flooding

$5K to the Township of Delavan for repairs

2004

Severe Storms and Flooding

$5K to the Township of Delavan for repairs

2001

Severe Winter Storms, Flooding, and Tornadoes

$5K to the Township of Delavan for repairs

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

Around Delavan

Delavan and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Sterlingmostly inland floodingLow

Luramostly inland floodingLow

Delavanmostly inland floodingLow

Winnebago Citymostly inland floodingLow

Prescottmostly inland floodingLow

Delavanmostly 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. Delavan covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Delavan’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Delavan. 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 Delavan total about $1.6M 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.