Natural hazards · Pine Ridge

Pine Ridge, SD natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Pine Ridge 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 Pine Ridge?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Pine Ridge to be higher than in 79% of U.S. communities, mostly from wildfires and cold waves.

Wildfire30%Cold waves18%Inland flooding16%Strong wind14%Lightning9%Tornadoes8%Everything else6%

By hazard

What Pine Ridge faces

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

Wildfire

30% of expected damage

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

Cold waves

18% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

16% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 46% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Strong wind

14% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 80% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lightning

9% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 98% of U.S. places

Tornadoes

8% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 60% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 7 years in the area

Lower here

HailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesDrought

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 Pine Ridge flood?

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

What’s been done with FEMA grants

1flood-prone properties bought out and cleared

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. Pine Ridge 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 Pine Ridge’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Pine Ridge. 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.