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Natural hazards · Menno

Menno, SD natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Menno comes from drought, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 3 claims here since 2001. 5 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

How exposed is Menno?

50
Moderate
vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Menno to be higher than in 50% of U.S. communities, mostly from drought and inland flooding.

Drought32%Inland flooding29%Tornadoes15%Cold waves12%Everything else13%
By hazard

What Menno faces

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

Drought

32% of expected damage
Recorded about 27 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

29% of expected damage
Below average · higher than 48% of U.S. places
Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

15% of expected damage
Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places
Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Cold waves

12% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 63% of U.S. places
Recorded about 7 times a year in the area

Lower here

HailIce 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 Menno flood?

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

3paid claims since 2001
$33Kpaid to owners
0homes flooded more than once
20012026
of homes in flood zones
are insured
of all homes
are insured
No community discount. Menno isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.
Insurance rates: Hutchinson County.
Disasters that hit Menno

5 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Menno itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the City of Menno.

Brought FEMA money into MennoDeclared for Hutchinson County only
2024

Severe Storms, Straight-Line Winds, and Flooding

$63K to the City of Menno for repairs
2022

Severe Storm, Straight-Line Winds, Tornadoes, and Flooding

$4K to the City of Menno for repairs
2019

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

2 households applied for aid $755 aid approved
2019

Severe Winter Storm, Snowstorm, and Flooding

10 households applied for aid $3K aid approved $86K to the City of Menno for repairs
2007

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

3 households applied for aid $6K aid approved
Hutchinson County has had 22 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.
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. Menno 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 Menno’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Menno. 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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