Natural hazards · Viking

Viking, ND natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Viking comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 22 claims here since 1978.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Viking?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Viking to be higher than in 58% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding38%Cold waves35%Tornadoes8%Hail8%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Viking faces

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

Inland flooding

38% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Cold waves

35% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 75% of U.S. places

Recorded about 17 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

8% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 5 years in the area

Hail

8% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lower here

Ice stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesDroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Viking flood?

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

22paid claims since 1978

$81Kpaid to owners

1homes flooded more than once

19782026

Biggest named events

Not a named storm: 3 claims, $11K

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. Viking isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.

Insurance rates: Richland County.

Disasters that hit Viking

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into VikingDeclared for Richland County only

Richland County has had 32 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

Around Viking

Viking and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Vikingmostly inland floodingModerate

Barriemostly inland floodingModerate

Sheyennemostly inland floodingModerate

Colfaxmostly inland floodingModerate

Garborgmostly cold wavesLow

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