Natural hazards · Douglas

Douglas, MN natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Douglas comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Douglas?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

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

Inland flooding54%Tornadoes18%Strong wind13%Hail8%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Douglas faces

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

Inland flooding

54% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 56% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

18% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 89% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 15 years in the area

Strong wind

13% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 98% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Hail

8% 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 weatherCold wavesHeat 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 Douglas flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Dakota County.

Disasters that hit Douglas

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into DouglasDeclared for Dakota County only

2012

Severe Storms and Flooding

$66K to the Township of Douglas for repairs

Dakota County has had 14 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

Around Douglas

Douglas and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Cannon Fallsmostly inland floodingHigh

Welchmostly inland floodingHigh

Vasamostly inland floodingHigh

Douglasmostly inland floodingModerate

Hamptonmostly inland floodingModerate

Marshanmostly inland floodingModerate

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