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Natural hazards · Wounded Knee

Wounded Knee, SD natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Wounded Knee comes from wildfires, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community.

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

How exposed is Wounded Knee?

93
Very high
vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Wounded Knee to be higher than in 93% of U.S. communities, mostly from wildfires.

Wildfire39%Inland flooding15%Cold waves15%Strong wind15%Lightning7%Tornadoes6%Everything else4%
By hazard

What Wounded Knee faces

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

Wildfire

39% of expected damage
Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places

Inland flooding

15% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 72% of U.S. places
Recorded about once a year in the area

Cold waves

15% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 61% of U.S. places
Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Strong wind

15% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 85% of U.S. places
Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Lightning

7% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 97% of U.S. places

Tornadoes

6% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 59% of U.S. places
Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

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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 Wounded Knee flood?

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

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

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