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Natural hazards · Dundas

Dundas, MN natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Dundas comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. 3 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

How exposed is Dundas?

40
Moderate
vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Dundas to be higher than in 40% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding39%Tornadoes25%Strong wind13%Cold waves11%Hail9%Everything else3%
By hazard

What Dundas faces

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

Inland flooding

39% of expected damage
Below average · higher than 30% of U.S. places
Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

25% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 96% of U.S. places

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

Cold waves

11% of expected damage
Below average · higher than 34% of U.S. places
Recorded about 10 times a year in the area

Hail

9% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 93% of U.S. places
Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Lower here

Ice stormsWinter weatherHeat 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 Dundas flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured
of all homes
are insured
No community discount. Dundas isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.
Insurance rates: Rice County.
Disasters that hit Dundas

3 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into DundasDeclared for Rice County only
2024

Severe Storms and Flooding

2 households applied for aid $14K aid approved
2016

Severe Storms and Flooding

1 household applied for aid
2010

Severe Storms and Flooding

$61K to the City of Dundas for repairs
Rice County has had 12 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.
Around Dundas

Dundas and the towns around it

Bridgewater: Moderate, mostly inland floodingNorthfield: Moderate, mostly inland floodingForest: Moderate, mostly inland floodingNorthfield: Moderate, mostly inland floodingGreenvale: Moderate, mostly inland floodingCannon City: High, mostly inland floodingWaterford: Moderate, mostly inland floodingDundas: Moderate, mostly inland flooding DundasBridgewaterNorthfield
Very lowLowModerateHighVery high
Northfieldmostly inland floodingModerate
Bridgewatermostly inland floodingModerate
Dundasmostly 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. Dundas 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 Dundas’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Dundas. 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.

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