Natural hazards · Joliette

Joliette, ND natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Joliette comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 20 claims here since 1997.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Joliette?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Joliette to be higher than in 37% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding41%Cold waves36%Everything else24%

By hazard

What Joliette faces

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

Inland flooding

41% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 45% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Cold waves

36% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 87% of U.S. places

Recorded about 23 times a year 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 Joliette flood?

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

20paid claims since 1997

$317Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19972026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Pembina County.

Disasters that hit Joliette

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into JolietteDeclared for Pembina County only

Pembina County has had 32 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

Around Joliette

Joliette and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Lincolnmostly inland floodingHigh

Hillmostly inland floodingHigh

Joliettemostly inland floodingLow

Carlislemostly inland floodingLow

Pembinamostly inland floodingLow

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