Natural hazards · Cusator

Cusator, ND natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Cusator comes from cold waves, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 10 claims here since 2010.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Cusator?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Cusator to be higher than in 34% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves and inland flooding.

Cold waves42%Inland flooding18%Hail13%Tornadoes8%Strong wind6%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Cusator faces

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

Cold waves

42% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 68% of U.S. places

Recorded about 19 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

18% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 10% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Hail

13% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 88% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Strong wind

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 97% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 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 Cusator flood?

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

10paid claims since 2010

$147Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20102026

Biggest named events

Late spring storms: 2 claims, $50K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Stutsman County.

Disasters that hit Cusator

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into CusatorDeclared for Stutsman County only

Stutsman County has had 28 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

Around Cusator

Cusator and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Cusatormostly cold wavesLow

Lentonmostly cold wavesLow

Moon Lakemostly cold wavesLow

Alexandermostly cold wavesLow

Sinclairmostly 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. Cusator covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Cusator’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Cusator. 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 Cusator total about $3.2M 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.