Natural hazards · Featherstone

Featherstone, MN natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Featherstone comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high 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 Featherstone?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Featherstone to be higher than in 60% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding49%Tornadoes19%Strong wind11%Hail8%Cold waves6%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Featherstone faces

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

Inland flooding

49% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 69% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

19% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 8 years in the area

Strong wind

11% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Hail

8% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Cold waves

6% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 35% of U.S. places

Recorded about 9 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 Featherstone flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Goodhue County.

Disasters that hit Featherstone

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into FeatherstoneDeclared for Goodhue County only

2012

Severe Storms and Flooding

$57K to the Township of Featherstone for repairs

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

Around Featherstone

Featherstone and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Hay Creekmostly inland floodingHigh

Featherstonemostly inland floodingHigh

Goodhuemostly inland floodingHigh

Vasamostly inland floodingHigh

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