Natural hazards · Denmark

Denmark, MN natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Denmark comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 49 claims here since 1978.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Denmark?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Denmark to be higher than in 48% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding51%Tornadoes20%Strong wind10%Cold waves8%Hail6%Everything else5%

By hazard

What Denmark faces

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

Inland flooding

51% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Tornadoes

20% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 90% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 25 years in the area

Strong wind

10% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Cold waves

8% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 25% of U.S. places

Recorded about 9 times a year in the area

Hail

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 87% of U.S. places

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Lower here

Ice stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesDroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Denmark flood?

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

49paid claims since 1978

$576Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19782026

Biggest named events

Severe flooding: 15 claims, $234K
Midwest Flooding: 4 claims, $19K
Not a named storm: 1 claim, $801

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Washington County.

Disasters that hit Denmark

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into DenmarkDeclared for Washington County only

Washington County has had 15 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

Around Denmark

Denmark and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Ravennamostly inland floodingModerate

Denmarkmostly inland floodingModerate

Aftonmostly inland floodingModerate

Niningermostly inland floodingModerate

Cliftonmostly inland floodingLow

Hastingsmostly inland floodingLow

Prescottmostly inland floodingLow

Cottage Grovemostly 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. Denmark covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Denmark’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Denmark. 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 Denmark total about $2.4M 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.