Natural hazards · Piedmont

Piedmont, SD natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Piedmont comes from wildfires, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Piedmont?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Piedmont to be higher than in 79% of U.S. communities, mostly from wildfires and inland flooding.

Wildfire47%Inland flooding35%Cold waves6%Everything else13%

By hazard

What Piedmont faces

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

Wildfire

47% of expected damage

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

Inland flooding

35% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 57% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Cold waves

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 59% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningAvalanches

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesDroughtTsunamisVolcanic 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 Piedmont flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Meade County.

Disasters that hit Piedmont

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into PiedmontDeclared for Meade County only

Meade County has had 19 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Piedmont

Piedmont and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Summersetmostly wildfiresVery high

Piedmontmostly wildfiresHigh

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. Piedmont 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 Piedmont’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Piedmont. 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.