Stark County, ND Tornado Risk & Storm Shelter Cost
Stark County's tornado history, by the numbers
Since 1952, NOAA has logged 26 tornado tracks crossing Stark County - one about every 2.9 years, which lands it in our Elevated band. Nationally, Stark County ranks at the 62nd percentile for tornado frequency. Among 53 North Dakota counties in this dataset, Stark County ranks 31 for how often a tornado touches down.
Stark County's EF4-5 history
Stark County's record has no EF4-5 tornado - its 26 tracks split 21 weak and 4 significant. That does not rule one out in the future, only that none has been recorded since 1950.
What a storm shelter costs near Stark County
For a Stark County homeowner, budget $2,890-$13,280 for a shelter or safe room ($7,645 typical) - this pass found no North Dakota-specific rebate on top of FEMA's underlying 75% national cost-share program.
The outage nobody plans for
33,767 people live in Stark County, and a tornado outbreak's power loss usually reaches far more of North Dakota than the tracks themselves touch. A portable battery unit is the faster, no-fuel way to bridge that outage.
Read this before you rely on it
This is a county-level figure, not a per-address probability. Stark County covers about 1,335 square miles, so a single touch here counts the same as a single touch in a county a fraction of that size. Pre-radar-era records (before the 1990s) are also documented by NOAA as undercounting weaker tornadoes in sparsely-instrumented areas. Stark County has about 33,767 residents.