Natural hazards · Wawina

Wawina, MN natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Wawina 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 Wawina?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Wawina to be higher than in 59% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding45%Cold waves41%Strong wind5%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Wawina faces

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

Inland flooding

45% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 83% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Cold waves

41% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 17 times a year in the area

Strong wind

5% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 17% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce 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 Wawina flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Itasca County.

Disasters that hit Wawina

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into WawinaDeclared for Itasca County only

2012

Severe Storms and Flooding

$2K to the Township of Wawina for repairs

Itasca County has had 13 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Wawina

Wawina and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Cedar Valleymostly cold wavesHigh

Wawinamostly inland floodingModerate

Sagomostly inland floodingModerate

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