Natural hazards · Prairie View

Prairie View, SD natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Prairie View comes from cold waves, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Prairie View?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Prairie View to be higher than in 60% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves.

Cold waves70%Inland flooding13%Everything else18%

By hazard

What Prairie View faces

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

Cold waves

70% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 67% of U.S. places

Recorded about 10 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

13% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce 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 Prairie View flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Corson County.

Disasters that hit Prairie View

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Prairie View itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the Township of Prairie View.

Brought FEMA money into Prairie ViewDeclared for Corson County only

2009

Severe Storms and Flooding

$1K to the Township of Prairie View for repairs

Corson County has had 13 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

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. Prairie View 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 Prairie View’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Prairie View. 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.