Natural hazards · Zumbro Falls

Zumbro Falls, MN natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Zumbro Falls comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 20 claims here since 2010. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Zumbro Falls?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Zumbro Falls to be higher than in 79% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding69%Tornadoes12%Strong wind7%Hail6%Everything else6%

By hazard

What Zumbro Falls faces

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

Inland flooding

69% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 90% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

12% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 7 years in the area

Strong wind

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 98% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Hail

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 90% of U.S. places

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Lower here

Ice stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat 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 Zumbro Falls flood?

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

20paid claims since 2010

$1.5Mpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20102026

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Wabasha County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

14flood-prone properties bought out and cleared

Disasters that hit Zumbro Falls

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Zumbro Falls itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the City of Zumbro Falls.

Brought FEMA money into Zumbro FallsDeclared for Wabasha County only

2007

Severe Storms and Flooding

7 households applied for aid $11K aid approved

Wabasha County has had 15 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

Around Zumbro Falls

Zumbro Falls and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Zumbro Fallsmostly inland floodingHigh

Zumbromostly inland floodingHigh

Chestermostly inland floodingHigh

Gillfordmostly inland floodingHigh

Hyde Parkmostly inland floodingHigh

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. Zumbro Falls 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 Zumbro Falls’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Zumbro Falls. 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.