Natural hazards · Hawk Creek

Hawk Creek, MN natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Hawk Creek 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 Hawk Creek?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

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

Inland flooding45%Cold waves15%Drought11%Strong wind9%Hail8%Tornadoes7%Everything else6%

By hazard

What Hawk Creek faces

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

Inland flooding

45% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 58% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Cold waves

15% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 22% of U.S. places

Recorded about 12 times a year in the area

Drought

11% of expected damage

Recorded about 8 times a year in the area

Strong wind

9% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 96% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Hail

8% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 73% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 86% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 6 years 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 Hawk Creek flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Renville County.

Disasters that hit Hawk Creek

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Hawk CreekDeclared for Renville County only

Renville County has had 18 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

Around Hawk Creek

Hawk Creek and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Minnesota Fallsmostly inland floodingHigh

Hawk Creekmostly inland floodingModerate

Sioux Agencymostly inland floodingModerate

Sacred Heartmostly inland floodingModerate

Wangmostly inland floodingModerate

Granite Fallsmostly 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. Hawk Creek 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 Hawk Creek’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Hawk Creek. 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.