Natural hazards · Broadview

Broadview, MT natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Broadview comes from cold waves, and overall the risk is 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 Broadview?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Broadview to be higher than in 33% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves and inland flooding.

Cold waves32%Inland flooding31%Wildfire22%Everything else14%

By hazard

What Broadview faces

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

Cold waves

32% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 92% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

31% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 25% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Wildfire

22% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 97% of U.S. places

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong 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 Broadview flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Yellowstone County.

Disasters that hit Broadview

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into BroadviewDeclared for Yellowstone County only

2011

Severe Storms and Flooding

1 household applied for aid $529 aid approved

Yellowstone County has had 12 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires 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. Broadview 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 Broadview’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Broadview. 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.