Natural hazards · Mansfield

Mansfield, MN natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Mansfield 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 Mansfield?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Mansfield to be higher than in 40% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding34%Tornadoes21%Drought19%Cold waves10%Strong wind8%Hail5%Everything else2%

By hazard

What Mansfield faces

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

Inland flooding

34% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 40% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

21% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 98% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 8 years in the area

Drought

19% of expected damage

Recorded about 14 times a year in the area

Cold waves

10% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 66% of U.S. places

Recorded about 10 times a year in the area

Strong wind

8% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Hail

5% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 84% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year 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 Mansfield flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Freeborn County.

Disasters that hit Mansfield

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into MansfieldDeclared for Freeborn County only

Freeborn County has had 19 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

Around Mansfield

Mansfield and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Kiestermostly inland floodingModerate

Mansfieldmostly inland floodingModerate

Nundamostly inland floodingModerate

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