Natural hazards · Hunter

Hunter, MN natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Hunter?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Hunter to be higher than in 60% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding46%Cold waves21%Tornadoes13%Hail8%Everything else13%

By hazard

What Hunter faces

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

Inland flooding

46% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Cold waves

21% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 65% of U.S. places

Recorded about 12 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

13% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 95% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 12 years in the area

Hail

8% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 67% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Lower here

Ice 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 Hunter flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Jackson County.

Disasters that hit Hunter

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into HunterDeclared for Jackson County only

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

Around Hunter

Hunter and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Rostmostly inland floodingHigh

Huntermostly inland floodingHigh

Lakefieldmostly inland floodingHigh

Minneotamostly inland floodingHigh

Des Moinesmostly inland floodingModerate

Heron Lakemostly 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. Hunter 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 Hunter’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Hunter. 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.