Natural hazards · Mayville

Mayville, MN natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Mayville?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Mayville to be higher than in 22% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding36%Cold waves29%Tornadoes19%Hail7%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Mayville faces

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

Inland flooding

36% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 26% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Cold waves

29% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 8 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

19% of expected damage

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

Hail

7% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Mayville flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Houston County.

Disasters that hit Mayville

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into MayvilleDeclared for Houston County only

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

Around Mayville

Mayville and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Unionmostly inland floodingVery high

Brownsvillemostly inland floodingVery high

Caledoniamostly inland floodingModerate

Winnebagomostly inland floodingModerate

Crooked Creekmostly inland floodingModerate

Mayvillemostly inland floodingLow

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