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Blooming Valley, SD natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Blooming Valley comes from cold waves, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. 3 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

How exposed is Blooming Valley?

53
Moderate
vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Blooming Valley to be higher than in 53% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves and inland flooding.

Cold waves36%Inland flooding36%Tornadoes9%Hail8%Everything else11%
By hazard

What Blooming Valley faces

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

Cold waves

36% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 63% of U.S. places
Recorded about 14 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

36% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 67% of U.S. places
Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

9% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 90% of U.S. places
Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Hail

8% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 67% of U.S. places
Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lower here

Ice stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong 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 Blooming Valley flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured
of all homes
are insured
No community discount. Blooming Valley isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.
Insurance rates: Grant County.
Disasters that hit Blooming Valley

3 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Blooming Valley itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the Township of Blooming Valley.

Brought FEMA money into Blooming ValleyDeclared for Grant County only
2023

Flooding

$40K to the Township of Blooming Valley for repairs
2011

Flooding

$4K to the Township of Blooming Valley for repairs
2001

Severe Winter Storms, Flooding, and Ice Jams

$2K to the Township of Blooming Valley for repairs
Grant County has had 20 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.
Around Blooming Valley

Blooming Valley and the towns around it

Lura: Moderate, mostly cold wavesFarmington: Moderate, mostly cold wavesOrtley: Moderate, mostly cold wavesMazeppa: Moderate, mostly cold wavesEgeland: Moderate, mostly inland floodingGermantown: Moderate, mostly inland floodingOsceola: Moderate, mostly cold wavesSummit: Moderate, mostly cold wavesOrtley: Moderate, mostly cold wavesAlto: Moderate, mostly cold wavesWaubay: Moderate, mostly inland floodingBlooming Valley: Moderate, mostly cold waves Blooming ValleyLuraFarmingtonOrtley
Very lowLowModerateHighVery high
Blooming Valleymostly cold wavesModerate
Luramostly cold wavesModerate
Farmingtonmostly cold wavesModerate
Ortleymostly 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. Blooming Valley 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 Blooming Valley’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Blooming Valley. 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.

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