Natural hazards · Grant

Grant, SD natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Grant comes from tornadoes, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 2 claims here since 1997.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Grant?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Grant to be higher than in 43% of U.S. communities, mostly from tornadoes and inland flooding.

Tornadoes37%Inland flooding37%Cold waves5%Everything else21%

By hazard

What Grant faces

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

Tornadoes

37% of expected damage

Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 11 years in the area

Inland flooding

37% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 41% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Cold waves

5% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 61% of U.S. places

Recorded about 8 times a year in the area

Lower here

HailIce 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 Grant flood?

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

2paid claims since 1997

$8Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19972026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Lincoln County.

Disasters that hit Grant

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into GrantDeclared for Lincoln County only

Lincoln County has had 15 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

Around Grant

Grant and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Delawaremostly inland floodingModerate

Middletonmostly inland floodingModerate

Grantmostly tornadoesModerate

Lennoxmostly tornadoesModerate

Lynnmostly tornadoesModerate

Perrymostly tornadoesModerate

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. Grant covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Grant’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Grant. 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 Grant total about $3.5M 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.