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Stony Run, MN natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Stony Run comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 119 claims here since 1987.

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

How exposed is Stony Run?

68
High
vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Stony Run to be higher than in 68% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and heat waves.

Inland flooding42%Heat waves27%Cold waves14%Tornadoes6%Strong wind5%Everything else7%
By hazard

What Stony Run faces

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

Inland flooding

42% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 83% of U.S. places
Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Heat waves

27% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 98% of U.S. places
Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Cold waves

14% of expected damage
Below average · higher than 33% of U.S. places
Recorded about 12 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

6% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 81% of U.S. places
Recorded about once every 10 years in the area

Strong wind

5% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 98% of U.S. places
Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Lower here

HailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightningDrought

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 Stony Run flood?

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

119paid claims since 1987
$1.8Mpaid to owners
0homes flooded more than once
19872026

Biggest named events

  • Severe flooding: 31 claims, $349K
of all homes
are insured
No community discount. Stony Run isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.
Insurance rates: Yellow Medicine County.
Disasters that hit Stony Run

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for Yellow Medicine County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Stony Run itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into Stony RunDeclared for Yellow Medicine County only
Yellow Medicine County has had 19 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.
Around Stony Run

Stony Run and the towns around it

Sparta: High, mostly inland floodingGranite Falls: Moderate, mostly inland floodingGranite Falls: High, mostly inland floodingMontevideo: High, mostly inland floodingCamp Release: High, mostly inland floodingLisbon: High, mostly inland floodingHazel Run: High, mostly inland floodingMinnesota Falls: High, mostly inland floodingTunsberg: Moderate, mostly inland floodingRosewood: Moderate, mostly inland floodingLeenthrop: Moderate, mostly inland floodingWang: Moderate, mostly inland floodingHawk Creek: Moderate, mostly inland floodingBaxter: High, mostly inland floodingLac qui Parle: High, mostly inland floodingTen Mile Lake: High, mostly inland floodingFriendship: Moderate, mostly inland floodingHazel Run: High, mostly inland floodingSandnes: Moderate, mostly inland floodingWood Lake: Moderate, mostly inland floodingSioux Agency: Moderate, mostly inland floodingStony Run: High, mostly inland flooding Stony RunSpartaGranite FallsGranite FallsMontevideoCamp ReleaseLisbonHazel RunMinnesota Falls
Very lowLowModerateHighVery high
Camp Releasemostly inland floodingHigh
Stony Runmostly inland floodingHigh
Granite Fallsmostly inland floodingHigh
Lisbonmostly inland floodingHigh
Hazel Runmostly inland floodingHigh
Minnesota Fallsmostly inland floodingHigh
Spartamostly inland floodingHigh
Montevideomostly inland floodingHigh
Granite Fallsmostly 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. Stony Run covers 1 census tract, combined by population.
Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Stony Run’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Stony Run. 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 Stony Run total about $3.5M 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.

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