Natural hazards · Greenleaf

Greenleaf, MN natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Greenleaf comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Greenleaf?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

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

Inland flooding47%Tornadoes13%Cold waves12%Strong wind12%Hail8%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Greenleaf 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 56% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Tornadoes

13% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 85% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 7 years in the area

Cold waves

12% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 48% of U.S. places

Recorded about 12 times a year in the area

Strong wind

12% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 97% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Hail

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 85% 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 Greenleaf flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Meeker County.

Disasters that hit Greenleaf

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into GreenleafDeclared for Meeker County only

Meeker County has had 9 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Greenleaf

Greenleaf and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Ellsworthmostly inland floodingModerate

Greenleafmostly inland floodingModerate

Litchfieldmostly inland floodingModerate

Cedar Millsmostly inland floodingModerate

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