Natural hazards · Synnes

Synnes, MN natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Synnes comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Synnes?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Synnes to be higher than in 27% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding40%Cold waves19%Hail18%Strong wind9%Tornadoes8%Everything else6%

By hazard

What Synnes faces

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

Inland flooding

40% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 43% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Cold waves

19% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 62% of U.S. places

Recorded about 14 times a year in the area

Hail

18% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 37% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Strong wind

9% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 95% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

8% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 3 years 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 Synnes flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Stevens County.

Disasters that hit Synnes

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into SynnesDeclared for Stevens County only

Stevens County has had 16 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

Around Synnes

Synnes and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Hegbertmostly inland floodingLow

Synnesmostly inland floodingLow

Scottmostly inland floodingLow

Stevensmostly inland floodingLow

Hortonmostly inland floodingVery low

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