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Natural hazards · Minneiska

Minneiska, MN natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Minneiska comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high 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 Minneiska?

67
High
vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Minneiska to be higher than in 67% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding68%Tornadoes11%Strong wind7%Hail6%Everything else8%
By hazard

What Minneiska faces

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

Inland flooding

68% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 81% of U.S. places
Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

11% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 85% of U.S. places
Recorded about once every 9 years in the area

Strong wind

7% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 98% of U.S. places
Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Hail

6% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 87% of U.S. places
Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lower here

Ice stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat 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 Minneiska flood?

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

of all homes
are insured
No community discount. Minneiska isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.
Insurance rates: Wabasha County.
Disasters that hit Minneiska

2 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into MinneiskaDeclared for Wabasha County only
2024

Severe Storms and Flooding

$15K to the City of Minneiska for repairs
2010

Severe Storms and Flooding

$4K to the City of Minneiska for repairs
Wabasha County has had 15 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.
Around Minneiska

Minneiska and the towns around it

Mount Vernon: High, mostly inland floodingMinneiska: High, mostly inland floodingMilton: Moderate, mostly inland floodingBelvidere: Low, mostly inland floodingRollingstone: High, mostly inland floodingWhitewater: High, mostly inland floodingNorton: High, mostly inland floodingWatopa: High, mostly inland floodingGreenfield: High, mostly inland floodingBuffalo City: Low, mostly inland floodingCross: Moderate, mostly inland floodingFountain City: Moderate, mostly inland floodingCochrane: Low, mostly inland floodingWaumandee: Moderate, mostly inland floodingAlma: Moderate, mostly inland floodingLincoln: Low, mostly inland floodingAlma: Low, mostly inland floodingMinneiska: High, mostly inland flooding MinneiskaMount VernonMinneiskaMiltonBelvidere
Very lowLowModerateHighVery high
Minneiskamostly inland floodingHigh
Minneiskamostly inland floodingHigh
Mount Vernonmostly inland floodingHigh
Miltonmostly inland floodingModerate
Belvideremostly 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. Minneiska 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 Minneiska’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Minneiska. 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.

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