Natural hazards · Beach

Beach, ND natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Beach comes from cold waves, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. 2 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Beach?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

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

Cold waves76%Inland flooding9%Everything else14%

By hazard

What Beach faces

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

Cold waves

76% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 69% of U.S. places

Recorded about 12 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

9% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 24% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 7 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 Beach flood?

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

What’s been done with FEMA grants

1flood-prone properties bought out and cleared

Disasters that hit Beach

2 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Beach itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the City of Beach.

Brought FEMA money into BeachDeclared for Golden Valley County only

2023

Flooding

$168K to the City of Beach for repairs

2005

Severe Winter Storm and Record And/Or Near Record Snow

$8K to the City of Beach for repairs

Golden Valley County has had 11 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. Beach 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 Beach’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Beach. 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.