Natural hazards · Southside

Southside, MN natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Southside comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Southside?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Southside to be higher than in 58% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding64%Tornadoes13%Strong wind9%Hail6%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Southside faces

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

Inland flooding

64% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

13% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 81% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 14 years in the area

Strong wind

9% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Hail

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 86% of U.S. places

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Lower here

Ice stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat 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 Southside flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Wright County.

Disasters that hit Southside

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Southside itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the Township of Southside.

Brought FEMA money into SouthsideDeclared for Wright County only

2002

Severe Storms, Flooding and Tornadoes

$54K to the Township of Southside for repairs

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

Around Southside

Southside and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Corinnamostly inland floodingHigh

Annandalemostly inland floodingHigh

Fair Havenmostly inland floodingHigh

Southsidemostly inland floodingModerate

French Lakemostly inland floodingModerate

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