Natural hazards · Le Center

Le Center, MN natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Le Center comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. 2 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Le Center?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Le Center to be higher than in 36% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding47%Tornadoes16%Strong wind15%Cold waves10%Hail6%Everything else6%

By hazard

What Le Center 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

Below average · higher than 35% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

16% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 92% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 16 years in the area

Strong wind

15% of expected damage

Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Cold waves

10% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 29% of U.S. places

Recorded about 10 times a year in the area

Hail

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 84% 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 Le Center flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Le Sueur County.

Disasters that hit Le Center

2 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Le Center itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the City of Le Center.

Brought FEMA money into Le CenterDeclared for Le Sueur County only

2024

Severe Storms and Flooding

1 household applied for aid $20K aid approved

2014

Severe Storms, Straight-Line Winds, Flooding, Landslides, and Mudslides

$5K to the City of Le Center for repairs

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

Around Le Center

Le Center and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Le Centermostly inland floodingLow

Lexingtonmostly 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. Le Center 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 Le Center’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Le Center. 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.