Natural hazards · Antelope

Antelope, ND natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Antelope comes from cold waves, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 18 claims here since 1997.

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

How exposed is Antelope?

26
Low
vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Antelope to be higher than in 26% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves and inland flooding.

Cold waves38%Inland flooding30%Tornadoes11%Hail10%Strong wind5%Everything else6%
By hazard

What Antelope faces

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

Cold waves

38% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 75% of U.S. places
Recorded about 17 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

30% of expected damage
Below average · higher than 27% of U.S. places
Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

11% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 92% of U.S. places
Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Hail

10% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 73% of U.S. places
Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Strong wind

5% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 92% of U.S. places
Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Lower here

Ice stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightningDrought

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 Antelope flood?

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

18paid claims since 1997
$140Kpaid to owners
0homes flooded more than once
19972026

Biggest named events

  • Winter storm: 2 claims, $51K
of homes in flood zones
are insured
of all homes
are insured
No community discount. Antelope isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.
Insurance rates: Richland County.
Disasters that hit Antelope

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into AntelopeDeclared for Richland County only
Richland County has had 32 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.
Around Antelope

Antelope and the towns around it

Ibsen: Low, mostly cold wavesHomestead: Low, mostly cold wavesNansen: Low, mostly cold wavesAbercrombie: Low, mostly cold wavesDwight: Low, mostly cold wavesMooreton: Moderate, mostly cold wavesWest End: Low, mostly cold wavesGarborg: Low, mostly cold wavesColfax: Moderate, mostly inland floodingAntelope: Low, mostly cold waves AntelopeIbsenHomesteadNansen
Very lowLowModerateHighVery high
Antelopemostly cold wavesLow
Ibsenmostly cold wavesLow
Homesteadmostly cold wavesLow
Nansenmostly cold wavesLow
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. Antelope covers 1 census tract, combined by population.
Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Antelope’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Antelope. 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 Antelope total about $2.3M 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.

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