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Freedom, MN natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Freedom 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 Freedom?

44
Moderate
vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Freedom to be higher than in 44% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and drought.

Inland flooding38%Drought20%Cold waves13%Strong wind11%Tornadoes11%Hail6%Everything else2%
By hazard

What Freedom faces

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

Inland flooding

38% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 50% of U.S. places
Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Drought

20% of expected damage
Recorded about 14 times a year in the area

Cold waves

13% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 63% of U.S. places
Recorded about 10 times a year 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

Tornadoes

11% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 92% of U.S. places
Recorded about once every 8 years in the area

Hail

6% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 86% 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 Freedom flood?

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

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

3 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into FreedomDeclared for Waseca County only
2019

Severe Winter Storm, Straight-Line Winds, and Flooding

$96K to the Township of Freedom for repairs
2016

Severe Storms and Flooding

$54K to the Township of Freedom for repairs
2010

Severe Storms and Flooding

$5K to the Township of Freedom for repairs
Waseca County has had 12 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.
Around Freedom

Freedom and the towns around it

Medo: Low, mostly inland floodingVivian: Moderate, mostly inland floodingAlton: Moderate, mostly inland floodingWaldorf: Moderate, mostly inland floodingWilton: Moderate, mostly inland floodingDanville: Low, mostly inland floodingBeauford: Low, mostly inland floodingMcPherson: High, mostly inland floodingDunbar: Low, mostly inland floodingByron: Moderate, mostly inland floodingSt. Mary: Moderate, mostly inland floodingJanesville: Moderate, mostly inland floodingOtisco: Moderate, mostly inland floodingFreedom: Moderate, mostly inland flooding FreedomMedoVivianAltonWaldorfWilton
Very lowLowModerateHighVery high
Altonmostly inland floodingModerate
Wiltonmostly inland floodingModerate
Freedommostly inland floodingModerate
Vivianmostly inland floodingModerate
Waldorfmostly inland floodingModerate
Medomostly 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. Freedom 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 Freedom’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Freedom. 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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