Natural hazards · Peerless

Peerless, MT natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Peerless?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Peerless to be higher than in 1% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves and inland flooding.

Cold waves60%Inland flooding27%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Peerless faces

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

Cold waves

60% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 21 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

27% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 6% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 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 Peerless flood?

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

Disasters that hit Peerless

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into PeerlessDeclared for Daniels County only

Daniels County has had 5 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods 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. Peerless 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 Peerless’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Peerless. 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.