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Natural hazards · Great Bend

Great Bend, ND natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Great Bend comes from cold waves, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. 6 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

How exposed is Great Bend?

44
Moderate
vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Great Bend to be higher than in 44% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves and inland flooding.

Cold waves40%Inland flooding32%Hail11%Tornadoes8%Everything else9%
By hazard

What Great Bend faces

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

Cold waves

40% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 75% of U.S. places
Recorded about 17 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

32% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 55% of U.S. places
Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Hail

11% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 72% of U.S. places
Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

8% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 93% of U.S. places
Recorded about once every 6 years in the area

Lower here

Ice stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

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 Great Bend flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured
of all homes
are insured
No community discount. Great Bend isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.
Insurance rates: Richland County.
Disasters that hit Great Bend

6 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into Great BendDeclared for Richland County only
2011

Flooding

$7K to the City of Great Bend for repairs
2010

Flooding

$5K to the City of Great Bend for repairs
2009

Severe Storms and Flooding

1 household applied for aid $12K to the City of Great Bend for repairs
2005

Severe Winter Storm

$2K to the City of Great Bend for repairs
2005

Severe Storms, Flooding, and Ground Saturation

$9K to the City of Great Bend for repairs
2001

Severe Storms, Flooding, & Ground Saturation

$6K to the City of Great Bend for repairs
Richland County has had 32 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.
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. Great Bend 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 Great Bend’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Great Bend. 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.

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