Natural hazards · Briarwood

Briarwood, ND natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Briarwood comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 34 claims here since 1997. 2 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Briarwood?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Briarwood to be higher than in 58% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding48%Cold waves15%Tornadoes12%Strong wind10%Hail6%Winter weather5%Everything else5%

By hazard

What Briarwood faces

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

Inland flooding

48% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 65% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Cold waves

15% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 71% of U.S. places

Recorded about 19 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

12% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 60 years in the area

Strong wind

10% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 96% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Hail

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 87% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Winter weather

5% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 24 times a year in the area

Lower here

Ice stormsHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesDroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Briarwood flood?

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

34paid claims since 1997

$2.2Mpaid to owners

2homes flooded more than once

19972026

Biggest named events

Severe flooding: 2 claims, $2K

Homes that flooded again and again

■ FEMA “severe repetitive loss” (0) ■ flooded 2+ times

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Cass County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

3flood-prone properties bought out and cleared

Disasters that hit Briarwood

2 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into BriarwoodDeclared for Cass County only

2009

Severe Storms and Flooding

6 households applied for aid $88K aid approved $83K to the City of Briarwood for repairs

2001

Severe Storms, Flooding, & Ground Saturation

$2K to the City of Briarwood for repairs

Cass County has had 30 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

Around Briarwood

Briarwood and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Kurtzmostly inland floodingVery high

Fargomostly inland floodingModerate

Briarwoodmostly inland floodingModerate

Stanleymostly inland floodingModerate

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. Briarwood 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 Briarwood’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Briarwood. 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.