Natural hazards · Pleasant

Pleasant, ND natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Pleasant comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 150 claims here since 1978.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Pleasant?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Pleasant to be higher than in 71% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and strong winds.

Inland flooding46%Strong wind20%Cold waves12%Hail11%Tornadoes7%Everything else4%

By hazard

What Pleasant faces

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

Inland flooding

46% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 81% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Strong wind

20% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Cold waves

12% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 71% of U.S. places

Recorded about 19 times a year in the area

Hail

11% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 86% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 94% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 6 years 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 Pleasant flood?

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

150paid claims since 1978

$1.8Mpaid to owners

6homes flooded more than once

19782026

Biggest named events

Winter storm: 13 claims, $50K
Severe flooding: 9 claims, $14K
Late spring storms: 5 claims, $4K

Homes that flooded again and again

■ FEMA “severe repetitive loss” (0) ■ flooded 2+ times

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Cass County.

Disasters that hit Pleasant

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into PleasantDeclared for Cass County only

Cass County has had 30 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

Around Pleasant

Pleasant and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Holy Crossmostly inland floodingVery high

Kurtzmostly inland floodingVery high

Pleasantmostly inland floodingHigh

Oxbowmostly inland floodingHigh

Normannamostly inland floodingHigh

Fargomostly inland floodingModerate

Stanleymostly inland floodingModerate

Eaglemostly inland floodingModerate

Horacemostly inland floodingModerate

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