Natural hazards · Lakeside

Lakeside, MT natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Lakeside comes from avalanches, 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 Lakeside?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Lakeside to be higher than in 84% of U.S. communities, mostly from avalanches.

Avalanches78%Inland flooding10%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Lakeside faces

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

Avalanches

78% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 0% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Inland flooding

10% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 88% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesDroughtTsunamisVolcanic 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 Lakeside flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Flathead County.

Disasters that hit Lakeside

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into LakesideDeclared for Flathead County only

Flathead County has had 13 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires and severe storms.

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. Lakeside covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Lakeside’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Lakeside. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

FEMA’s expected losses across Lakeside total about $10.9M a year, counting buildings, people and crops.

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.