Natural hazards · Menz

Menz, ND natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Menz comes from cold waves, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Menz?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Menz to be higher than in 63% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves.

Cold waves81%Inland flooding6%Everything else13%

By hazard

What Menz faces

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

Cold waves

81% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 70% of U.S. places

Recorded about 13 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

6% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 48% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years 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 Menz flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Sioux County.

Disasters that hit Menz

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into MenzDeclared for Sioux County only

Sioux County has had 18 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Menz

Menz and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Menzmostly cold wavesHigh

Orangemostly cold wavesModerate

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