Natural hazards · Gackle

Gackle, ND natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Gackle comes from cold waves, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. 3 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Gackle?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Gackle to be higher than in 51% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves and inland flooding.

Cold waves54%Inland flooding18%Hail11%Strong wind7%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Gackle faces

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

Cold waves

54% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 16 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

18% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 40% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 5 years in the area

Hail

11% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Strong wind

7% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesIce 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 Gackle flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Logan County.

Disasters that hit Gackle

3 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into GackleDeclared for Logan County only

2009

Severe Storms and Flooding

11 households applied for aid $10K aid approved $559K to the City of Gackle for repairs

2001

Severe Storms, Flooding, & Ground Saturation

$1K to the City of Gackle for repairs

1999

Severe Storms, Flooding, Snow, Ice, Ground Saturation, Lanslides, Mudslides, and Tor

$1K to the City of Gackle for repairs

Logan County has had 23 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

Around Gackle

Gackle and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Gacklemostly cold wavesModerate

Finnmostly cold wavesModerate

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