Natural hazards · Great Scott

Great Scott, MN natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Great Scott comes from cold waves, and overall the risk is low 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 Great Scott?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Great Scott to be higher than in 30% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves and inland flooding.

Cold waves70%Inland flooding21%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Great Scott faces

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

Cold waves

70% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 75% of U.S. places

Recorded about 17 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

21% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 59% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

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 Great Scott flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: St. Louis County.

Disasters that hit Great Scott

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into Great ScottDeclared for St. Louis County only

1999

Severe Storms, Winds, and Flooding

$7K to the Township of Great Scott for repairs

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

Around Great Scott

Great Scott and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Balkanmostly cold wavesModerate

Hibbingmostly cold wavesLow

Great Scottmostly cold wavesLow

Cherrymostly cold wavesLow

Buhlmostly cold wavesLow

Mountain Ironmostly cold wavesVery low

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