Natural hazards · Brady

Brady, MT natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Brady comes from cold waves, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Brady?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Brady to be higher than in 24% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves and inland flooding.

Cold waves46%Inland flooding45%Everything else10%

By hazard

What Brady faces

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

Cold waves

46% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 9 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

45% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 52% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 4 years 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 Brady flood?

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

Disasters that hit Brady

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into BradyDeclared for Pondera County only

Pondera County has had 12 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

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