Minnesota

Comprehensive climate risk and disaster history profile

Billion-Dollar Events

$165.5B

Total Economic Impact

Counties

41.16

Avg Risk Score

Top Natural Hazards

Based on FEMA National Risk Index data across all 87 counties

Cold Wave

78.71 Avg Risk Score

Drought

69.33 Avg Risk Score

Winter Weather

65.61 Avg Risk Score

Hail

64.36 Avg Risk Score

Strong Wind

61.45 Avg Risk Score

Ice Storm

56.76 Avg Risk Score

Wildfire

55.5 Avg Risk Score

Heat Wave

55.2 Avg Risk Score

Historical billion-dollar events by category (1980-2024)

severe-storm 32 events

$72.1B

drought 7 events

$65.0B

flooding 5 events

$27.7B

winter-storm 1 events

$0.7B

How disaster frequency and costs have changed over time

Counties with the highest overall risk scores based on FEMA NRI

Rank	County	Risk Score	Risk Rating	SVI Percentile
1	Hennepin	95.58	Relatively High	41.1%
2	Dakota	92.62	Relatively Moderate	14.9%
3	Ramsey	92.11	Relatively Moderate	70.8%
4	Anoka	89.98	Relatively Moderate	18.1%
5	Washington	86.76	Relatively Moderate	5.0%
6	Scott	83.04	Relatively Moderate	10.3%
7	Stearns	81.1	Relatively Low	45.7%
8	Olmsted	80.43	Relatively Low	23.6%
9	Wright	79.92	Relatively Low	2.4%
10	Carver	74.64	Relatively Low	3.4%