Natural hazards · Napoleon

Napoleon, ND natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Napoleon comes from cold waves, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Napoleon?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Napoleon to be higher than in 51% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves and inland flooding.

Cold waves54%Inland flooding18%Hail11%Strong wind7%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Napoleon faces

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

Cold waves

54% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 65% of U.S. places

Recorded about 16 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

18% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 40% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 5 years in the area

Hail

11% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 96% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Strong wind

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 96% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 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 Napoleon flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Logan County.

Disasters that hit Napoleon

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into NapoleonDeclared for Logan County only

2009

Severe Storms and Flooding

6 households applied for aid $10K aid approved

Logan County has had 23 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. Napoleon 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 Napoleon’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Napoleon. 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.