Natural hazards · Whiting

Whiting, ND natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Whiting comes from cold waves, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Whiting?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Whiting to be higher than in 27% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves and inland flooding.

Cold waves46%Inland flooding23%Hail9%Strong wind6%Everything else17%

By hazard

What Whiting faces

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

Cold waves

46% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 69% of U.S. places

Recorded about 11 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

23% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 23% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 7 years in the area

Hail

9% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 89% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Strong wind

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 91% 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 Whiting flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Bowman County.

Disasters that hit Whiting

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into WhitingDeclared for Bowman County only

Bowman County has had 11 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Whiting

Whiting and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Whitingmostly cold wavesLow

Gascoynemostly cold wavesLow

Boyesenmostly cold wavesLow

Scrantonmostly cold wavesLow

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