Natural hazards · Pondera Colony

Pondera Colony, MT natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Pondera Colony?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Pondera Colony to be higher than in 27% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves and inland flooding.

Cold waves50%Inland flooding35%Everything else15%

By hazard

What Pondera Colony faces

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

Cold waves

50% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 9 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

35% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 45% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtAvalanches

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Pondera Colony flood?

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

Disasters that hit Pondera Colony

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Pondera ColonyDeclared for Pondera County only

Pondera County has had 12 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. Pondera Colony 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 Pondera Colony’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Pondera Colony. 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.