Natural hazards · Sverdrup

Sverdrup, SD natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Sverdrup comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Sverdrup?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Sverdrup to be higher than in 32% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding35%Tornadoes31%Cold waves14%Hail5%Drought5%Everything else10%

By hazard

What Sverdrup faces

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

Inland flooding

35% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 40% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

31% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 95% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 7 years in the area

Cold waves

14% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 33% of U.S. places

Recorded about 9 times a year in the area

Hail

5% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 79% of U.S. places

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Drought

5% of expected damage

Recorded about 12 times a year in the area

Lower here

Ice 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 Sverdrup flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Minnehaha County.

Disasters that hit Sverdrup

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into SverdrupDeclared for Minnehaha County only

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

Around Sverdrup

Sverdrup and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Dell Rapidsmostly inland floodingHigh

Sverdrupmostly inland floodingLow

Balticmostly inland floodingLow

Edisonmostly inland floodingLow

Lyonsmostly inland floodingLow

Mapletonmostly tornadoesLow

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