Natural hazards · Beck-Highland

Beck-Highland, SD natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Beck-Highland?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Beck-Highland to be higher than in 54% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves and inland flooding.

Cold waves41%Inland flooding29%Wildfire7%Strong wind6%Hail6%Everything else10%

By hazard

What Beck-Highland faces

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

Cold waves

41% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 65% of U.S. places

Recorded about 9 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

29% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 54% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Wildfire

7% of expected damage

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

Strong wind

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 97% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Hail

6% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesLightningDrought

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 Beck-Highland flood?

FEMA's records show no paid flood insurance claims in Beck-Highland.

Disasters that hit Beck-Highland

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for Perkins County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Beck-Highland itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into Beck-HighlandDeclared for Perkins County only

Perkins County has had 17 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Beck-Highland

Beck-Highland and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Beck-Highlandmostly cold wavesModerate

Duellmostly cold wavesModerate

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