Natural hazards · Glencoe

Glencoe, MN natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Glencoe comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 4 claims here since 1991.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Glencoe?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Glencoe to be higher than in 54% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding47%Cold waves21%Tornadoes14%Strong wind9%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Glencoe faces

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

Inland flooding

47% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 70% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Cold waves

21% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 51% of U.S. places

Recorded about 11 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

14% of expected damage

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

Strong wind

9% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 91% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lower here

HailIce 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 Glencoe flood?

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

4paid claims since 1991

$35Kpaid to owners

1homes flooded more than once

19912026

Homes that flooded again and again

■ FEMA “severe repetitive loss” (0) ■ flooded 2+ times

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: McLeod County.

Disasters that hit Glencoe

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into GlencoeDeclared for McLeod County only

McLeod County has had 16 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

Around Glencoe

Glencoe and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Glencoemostly inland floodingModerate

Glencoemostly inland floodingLow

Helenmostly 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. Glencoe covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Glencoe’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Glencoe. 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 Glencoe total about $2.9M 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.