Natural hazards · Browning

Browning, MT natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Browning comes from cold waves, 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 Browning?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Browning to be higher than in 43% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves and inland flooding.

Cold waves58%Inland flooding27%Everything else15%

By hazard

What Browning faces

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

Cold waves

58% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 8 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

27% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 64% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesDroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Browning flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Glacier County.

Disasters that hit Browning

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into BrowningDeclared for Glacier County only

2011

Severe Storms and Flooding

326 households applied for aid $474K aid approved

Glacier County has had 10 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. Browning 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 Browning’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Browning. 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.