Natural hazards · Grand Rapids

Grand Rapids, ND natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Grand Rapids comes from cold waves, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 7 claims here since 2009.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Grand Rapids?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Grand Rapids to be higher than in 62% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves and inland flooding.

Cold waves42%Inland flooding22%Strong wind13%Hail11%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Grand Rapids 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 17 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

22% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 62% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Strong wind

13% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 98% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Hail

11% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 91% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 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 Grand Rapids flood?

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

7paid claims since 2009

$31Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20092026

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: LaMoure County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

3storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Grand Rapids

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Grand RapidsDeclared for LaMoure County only

LaMoure County has had 29 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

Around Grand Rapids

Grand Rapids and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Grand Rapidsmostly cold wavesHigh

Deanmostly cold wavesHigh

Pearl Lakemostly cold wavesHigh

Grandviewmostly cold wavesLow

Henriettamostly 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. Grand Rapids 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 Grand Rapids’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Grand Rapids. 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.