Natural hazards · Skyline

Skyline, MN natural hazards

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

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Skyline to be higher than in 61% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding43%Cold waves32%Tornadoes9%Strong wind8%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Skyline faces

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

Inland flooding

43% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 73% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Cold waves

32% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 64% of U.S. places

Recorded about 11 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

9% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 90% of U.S. places

Strong wind

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 98% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lower here

HailIce 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 Skyline flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Blue Earth County.

Disasters that hit Skyline

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into SkylineDeclared for Blue Earth County only

Blue Earth County has had 20 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

Around Skyline

Skyline and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Skylinemostly inland floodingHigh

Mankatomostly inland floodingHigh

South Bendmostly inland floodingHigh

Mankatomostly cold wavesLow

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