Natural hazards · Grandview

Grandview, SD natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Grandview comes from cold waves, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 1997.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Grandview?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Grandview to be higher than in 35% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves and inland flooding.

Cold waves32%Inland flooding28%Tornadoes15%Drought7%Hail6%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Grandview faces

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

Cold waves

32% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 63% of U.S. places

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

28% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 32% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Tornadoes

15% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Drought

7% of expected damage

Recorded about 22 times a year in the area

Hail

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 82% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Lower here

Ice stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

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 Grandview flood?

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

1paid claims since 1997

$520paid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19972026

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Douglas County.

Disasters that hit Grandview

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into GrandviewDeclared for Douglas County only

Douglas County has had 16 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

Around Grandview

Grandview and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Grandviewmostly cold wavesLow

Corsicamostly cold wavesLow

Iowamostly cold wavesLow

Valleymostly cold wavesLow

Chestermostly cold wavesLow

Walnut Grovemostly 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. Grandview covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Grandview’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Grandview. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

FEMA’s expected losses across Grandview total about $6.0M a year, counting buildings, people and crops.

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.