Natural hazards · Medina

Medina, ND natural hazards

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

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Medina to be higher than in 34% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves and inland flooding.

Cold waves42%Inland flooding18%Hail13%Tornadoes8%Strong wind6%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Medina 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 19 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

18% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 10% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Hail

13% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 95% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 88% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Strong wind

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 97% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

Ice 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 Medina flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Stutsman County.

Disasters that hit Medina

3 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into MedinaDeclared for Stutsman County only

2019

Flooding

$11K to the City of Medina for repairs

2009

Severe Storms and Flooding

9 households applied for aid $5K aid approved $24K to the City of Medina for repairs

2002

Severe Storms, Flooding and Tornadoes

$9K to the City of Medina for repairs

Stutsman County has had 28 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

Around Medina

Medina and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Medinamostly cold wavesLow

Chicagomostly cold wavesLow

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