Natural hazards · Wayne

Wayne, SD natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Wayne comes from tornadoes, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 2010.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Wayne?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Wayne to be higher than in 26% of U.S. communities, mostly from tornadoes and inland flooding.

Tornadoes39%Inland flooding24%Cold waves20%Ice storms5%Everything else13%

By hazard

What Wayne faces

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

Tornadoes

39% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 93% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 45 years in the area

Inland flooding

24% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 31% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Cold waves

20% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 9 times a year in the area

Ice storms

5% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 93% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

HailWinter 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 Wayne flood?

Every paid claim on a federal flood insurance policy in Wayne, from FEMA’s records.

1paid claims since 2010

$4Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20102026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Wayne 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 Wayne

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into WayneDeclared for Minnehaha County only

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

Around Wayne

Wayne and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Sioux Fallsmostly tornadoesLow

Bentonmostly tornadoesLow

Waynemostly tornadoesLow

Wall Lakemostly 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. Wayne covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Wayne’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Wayne. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

FEMA’s expected losses across Wayne total about $2.3M a year, counting buildings, people and crops.

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.