Natural hazards · Ashland Heights

Ashland Heights, SD natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Ashland Heights comes from inland flooding, 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 Ashland Heights?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Ashland Heights to be higher than in 25% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and wildfires.

Inland flooding34%Wildfire18%Cold waves15%Hail14%Tornadoes6%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Ashland Heights faces

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

Inland flooding

34% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 12% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Wildfire

18% of expected damage

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

Cold waves

15% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 58% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Hail

14% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

6% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 49% of U.S. places

Lower here

Ice stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

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 Ashland Heights flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Pennington County.

Disasters that hit Ashland Heights

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Ashland HeightsDeclared for Pennington County only

Pennington County has had 19 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

Around Ashland Heights

Ashland Heights and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Box Eldermostly inland floodingModerate

Ashland Heightsmostly inland floodingLow

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. Ashland Heights 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 Ashland Heights’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Ashland Heights. 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.