Natural hazards · Arnegard

Arnegard, ND natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Arnegard 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 Arnegard?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Arnegard to be higher than in 24% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves and inland flooding.

Cold waves37%Inland flooding22%Hail12%Tornadoes8%Wildfire7%Strong wind6%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Arnegard faces

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

Cold waves

37% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 73% of U.S. places

Recorded about 15 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

22% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 9% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Hail

12% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 95% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

8% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 62% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 10 years in the area

Wildfire

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 95% of U.S. places

Strong wind

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 77% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

Ice stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesLightningDrought

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 Arnegard flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: McKenzie County.

Disasters that hit Arnegard

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into ArnegardDeclared for McKenzie County only

McKenzie County has had 20 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Arnegard

Arnegard and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Alexmostly inland floodingModerate

Arnegardmostly 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. Arnegard 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 Arnegard’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Arnegard. 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.