Natural hazards · Rocksbury

Rocksbury, MN natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Rocksbury comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 2 claims here since 1978.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Rocksbury?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Rocksbury to be higher than in 89% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding86%Everything else14%

By hazard

What Rocksbury faces

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

Inland flooding

86% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 97% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat 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 Rocksbury flood?

Every paid claim on a federal flood insurance policy in Rocksbury, from FEMA’s records.

2paid claims since 1978

$2Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19782026

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Pennington County.

Disasters that hit Rocksbury

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into RocksburyDeclared for Pennington County only

Pennington County has had 18 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

Around Rocksbury

Rocksbury and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Smileymostly inland floodingVery high

Rocksburymostly inland floodingVery high

Thief River Fallsmostly inland floodingVery high

Sandersmostly inland floodingVery high

Black Rivermostly inland floodingVery high

Northmostly inland floodingVery high

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. Rocksbury covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Rocksbury’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Rocksbury. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

FEMA’s expected losses across Rocksbury total about $3.6M a year, counting buildings, people and crops.

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.