Natural hazards · Minnewaska

Minnewaska, MN natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Minnewaska?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Minnewaska to be higher than in 71% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding64%Cold waves19%Tornadoes7%Everything else10%

By hazard

What Minnewaska faces

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

Inland flooding

64% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 88% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Cold waves

19% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 61% of U.S. places

Recorded about 14 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

7% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 74% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 74 years in the area

Lower here

HailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

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 Minnewaska flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Pope County.

Disasters that hit Minnewaska

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into MinnewaskaDeclared for Pope County only

Pope County has had 13 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

Around Minnewaska

Minnewaska and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Minnewaskamostly inland floodingHigh

Long Beachmostly inland floodingHigh

Glenwoodmostly inland floodingHigh

White Bear Lakemostly inland floodingHigh

Renomostly inland floodingHigh

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