Natural hazards · Sherbrooke

Sherbrooke, ND natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Sherbrooke comes from strong winds, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 2 claims here since 1997.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Sherbrooke?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Sherbrooke to be higher than in 48% of U.S. communities, mostly from strong winds and cold waves.

Strong wind34%Cold waves22%Hail18%Inland flooding12%Ice storms6%Tornadoes5%Everything else3%

By hazard

What Sherbrooke faces

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

Strong wind

34% of expected damage

Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Cold waves

22% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 73% of U.S. places

Recorded about 21 times a year in the area

Hail

18% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 90% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

12% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 7% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Ice storms

6% of expected damage

Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Tornadoes

5% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 93% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Lower here

Winter 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 Sherbrooke flood?

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

2paid claims since 1997

$10Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19972026

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Steele County.

Disasters that hit Sherbrooke

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into SherbrookeDeclared for Steele County only

Steele County has had 29 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

Around Sherbrooke

Sherbrooke and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Sherbrookemostly strong windsModerate

Primrosemostly strong windsModerate

Eastonmostly strong windsModerate

Golden Lakemostly strong windsModerate

Hugomostly strong windsModerate

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. Sherbrooke covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Sherbrooke’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Sherbrooke. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

FEMA’s expected losses across Sherbrooke total about $4.3M a year, counting buildings, people and crops.

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.