Natural hazards · Wabedo

Wabedo, MN natural hazards

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

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Wabedo to be higher than in 19% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding59%Cold waves26%Tornadoes6%Everything else10%

By hazard

What Wabedo faces

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

Inland flooding

59% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 7 years in the area

Cold waves

26% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 16 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 59% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 53 years in the area

Lower here

HailIce 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 Wabedo flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Wabedo 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 Wabedo

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into WabedoDeclared for Cass County only

2012

Severe Storms and Flooding

$45K to the Township of Wabedo for repairs

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

Around Wabedo

Wabedo and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Blind Lakemostly inland floodingLow

Kegomostly inland floodingLow

Trelipemostly inland floodingLow

Wabedomostly inland floodingVery low

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