Tepee Butte is calmer than 91% of U.S. communities
Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Tepee Butte comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community.
What stands out about Tepee Butte’s weather risks
Read from FEMA’s records below. The page puts what stands out first.
How exposed is Tepee Butte?
FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings here to be higher than in 9% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.
Calmer than 1,496 of the 1,711 North Dakota towns we cover.
Tepee Butte is smaller than a census tract, so it shares the figures of the tract around its center.
What Tepee Butte faces
Each hazard’s share of the damage FEMA expects here, and how it compares with the rest of the country.
Inland flooding
Cold waves
Hail
Tornadoes
Winter weather
Strong wind
Tepee Butte and its neighbors
Tepee Butte has the lowest rating of the 5 towns around it. Tap a town to see its hazards.
Rating = expected yearly storm and flood damage as a share of what’s there, vs. U.S. communities. Flood claims = paid federal flood insurance claims on record.
Does Tepee Butte flood? No paid flood claims on record
FEMA’s records show no paid flood insurance claims in Tepee Butte. That’s not a promise: most homes don’t carry flood insurance, so small floods go unrecorded.
Tepee Butte isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.
Insurance rates: Hettinger County.Federal disasters declared here
None of the disasters declared for Hettinger County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Tepee Butte itself in FEMA’s records.
Hettinger County has had 17 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.
Get ready for what Tepee Butte actually faces
A short kit for its top hazards, what to check before you buy, and where neighbors get alerts.
- Turn around at flooded roads: a foot of moving water can carry off a car.
- Flood insurance usually takes 30 days to start, so buy it before the forecast.
- Keep papers and medicines up high, in a grab-and-go bag.
- Let faucets drip so pipes don’t freeze.
- Know where your water shutoff is.
- Never heat the house with the oven or a grill.
- Park in a garage or under cover when storms are forecast.
- Stay away from windows while it falls.
- Photograph roof and car damage for your insurer.
- Look up the address on FEMA’s flood map.
- Ask the seller or landlord whether it has ever flooded, and what flood insurance costs there.
- Get a flood insurance quote early: policies usually start 30 days after you buy.
Know where neighbors sign up for alerts? Add it to the Handbook so everyone has it.
Most disasters here begin in February–April
The month each of Hettinger County’s 17 declared disasters began, since 1953.
What these numbers can and can’t tell you
- An average, not a forecast. FEMA’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 there, so a big city isn’t rated riskier just for having more buildings.
- Money that reached town. Flood claims are matched to Tepee Butte’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Tepee Butte.
- It follows property value. FEMA’s model weighs damage to buildings, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.
Storm stories
Memories, warnings and help from neighbors in Tepee Butte.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
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. Preparedness tips: Ready.gov. An average of past damage, not a forecast.