Natural hazards · Pequaywan

Pequaywan, MN natural hazards

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

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Pequaywan to be higher than in 45% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding54%Cold waves37%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Pequaywan faces

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

Inland flooding

54% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Cold waves

37% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 63% of U.S. places

Recorded about 13 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesEarthquakesDroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Pequaywan flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: St. Louis County.

Disasters that hit Pequaywan

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into PequaywanDeclared for St. Louis County only

St. Louis County has had 15 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

Around Pequaywan

Pequaywan and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Aultmostly inland floodingHigh

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