Natural hazards · Biddle

Biddle, MT natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Biddle?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Biddle to be higher than in 80% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and wildfires.

Inland flooding38%Wildfire36%Cold waves17%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Biddle faces

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

Inland flooding

38% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 71% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Wildfire

36% of expected damage

Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places

Cold waves

17% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 96% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtAvalanches

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Biddle flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Powder River County.

Disasters that hit Biddle

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into BiddleDeclared for Powder River County only

Powder River County has had 9 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and fires.

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