Natural hazards · Glendive

Glendive, MT natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Glendive comes from cold waves, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 5 claims here since 1978. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Glendive?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Glendive to be higher than in 41% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves.

Cold waves79%Inland flooding10%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Glendive faces

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

Cold waves

79% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 14 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

10% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 63% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year 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 Glendive flood?

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

5paid claims since 1978

$12Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19782026

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Dawson County.

Disasters that hit Glendive

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into GlendiveDeclared for Dawson County only

2011

Severe Storms and Flooding

$17K to the City of Glendive for repairs

Dawson County has had 7 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. Glendive 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 Glendive’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Glendive. 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.