Natural hazards · Fort Yates

Fort Yates, ND natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Fort Yates comes from cold waves, and overall the risk is high 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 Fort Yates?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Fort Yates to be higher than in 68% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves.

Cold waves82%Inland flooding6%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Fort Yates faces

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

Cold waves

82% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 70% of U.S. places

Recorded about 13 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 58% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 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 Fort Yates flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Sioux County.

Disasters that hit Fort Yates

2 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into Fort YatesDeclared for Sioux County only

2011

Flooding

$1K to the City of Fort Yates for repairs

2009

Severe Storms and Flooding

5 households applied for aid $881 aid approved

Sioux County has had 18 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

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