Natural hazards · Rutledge

Rutledge, MN natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Rutledge comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 3 claims here since 2016.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Rutledge?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Rutledge to be higher than in 44% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding54%Cold waves30%Tornadoes5%Everything else10%

By hazard

What Rutledge 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 69% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Cold waves

30% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 69% of U.S. places

Recorded about 11 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

5% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 55% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 21 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 Rutledge flood?

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

3paid claims since 2016

$228Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20162026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Pine County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

12flood-prone properties bought out and cleared

Disasters that hit Rutledge

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into RutledgeDeclared for Pine County only

Pine County has had 12 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

Around Rutledge

Rutledge and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Kettle Rivermostly inland floodingModerate

Rutledgemostly inland floodingModerate

Finlaysonmostly 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. Rutledge 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 Rutledge’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Rutledge. 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.