Natural hazards · Iona

Iona, MN natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Iona comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 3 claims here since 2001.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Iona?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Iona to be higher than in 23% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding61%Cold waves9%Tornadoes8%Strong wind8%Everything else14%

By hazard

What Iona faces

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

Inland flooding

61% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 43% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Cold waves

9% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 14 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

8% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 11 years in the area

Strong wind

8% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 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 Iona flood?

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

3paid claims since 2001

$32Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20012026

Biggest named events

Severe flooding: 1 claim, $6K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Todd County.

Disasters that hit Iona

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into IonaDeclared for Todd County only

Todd County has had 10 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

Around Iona

Iona and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Reynoldsmostly inland floodingHigh

Hartfordmostly inland floodingLow

Ionamostly inland floodingLow

Eagle Valleymostly inland floodingLow

Burleenemostly 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. Iona covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Iona’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Iona. 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 Iona total about $1.1M 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.