Natural hazards · Vale

Vale, SD natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Vale comes from inland flooding, 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 Vale?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Vale to be higher than in 77% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding50%Wildfire15%Cold waves14%Hail8%Strong wind6%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Vale faces

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

Inland flooding

50% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 83% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Wildfire

15% of expected damage

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

Cold waves

14% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 63% of U.S. places

Recorded about 7 times a year in the area

Hail

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 89% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Strong wind

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 90% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesLightningDrought

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 Vale flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Butte County.

Disasters that hit Vale

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into ValeDeclared for Butte County only

Butte County has had 18 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. Vale 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 Vale’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Vale. 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.