Natural hazards · Rolling Forks

Rolling Forks, MN natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Rolling Forks 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 Rolling Forks?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Rolling Forks to be higher than in 72% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding58%Cold waves16%Hail7%Tornadoes6%Strong wind6%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Rolling Forks faces

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

Inland flooding

58% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Cold waves

16% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 14 times a year in the area

Hail

7% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 41% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

6% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Strong wind

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 91% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Lower here

Ice stormsWinter weatherHeat 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 Rolling Forks flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Rolling Forks 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 Rolling Forks

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Rolling ForksDeclared for Pope County only

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

Around Rolling Forks

Rolling Forks and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Rolling Forksmostly inland floodingHigh

Gilchristmostly inland floodingHigh

Barsnessmostly inland floodingHigh

Langheimostly inland floodingHigh

Camp Lakemostly 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. Rolling Forks 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 Rolling Forks’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Rolling Forks. 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.