Natural hazards · Trelipe

Trelipe, MN natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Trelipe comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low 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 Trelipe?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Trelipe to be higher than in 33% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding66%Cold waves21%Everything else13%

By hazard

What Trelipe faces

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

Inland flooding

66% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 7 years in the area

Cold waves

21% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 66% of U.S. places

Recorded about 16 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce 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 Trelipe flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Cass County.

Disasters that hit Trelipe

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into TrelipeDeclared for Cass County only

2012

Severe Storms and Flooding

$6K to the Township of Trelipe for repairs

Cass County has had 11 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

Around Trelipe

Trelipe and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Fifty Lakesmostly inland floodingHigh

Trelipemostly inland floodingLow

Inguadonamostly inland floodingLow

Thunder Lakemostly inland floodingLow

Crooked Lakemostly inland floodingLow

Blind Lakemostly inland floodingLow

Remermostly inland floodingLow

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