Levees / North Dakota / 5705000062

Red River of the North - Grand Forks

Grand Forks, Grand Forks County, North Dakota. On the Red River of the North. USACE records 50,463 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Accredited Levee SystemUSACE oversight
People behind it
50,463
USACE figure
Structures
15,519
in the leveed area
Levee length
20.5
miles, plus 1.82 of floodwall
Leveed area
34.06
square miles
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The federal record

System ID
5705000062
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Accredited Levee System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Moderate
Inspection rating
M
Inspection date
08/09/2010
Rehabilitation programme
Active
Responsible sponsor
City of Gand Forks
Waterway
Red River of the North
Segments
1
USACE district
St. Paul
USACE division
Mississippi Valley Division
FEMA region
8
Congressional district
00
Consequence estimate
$6.17 billion
Flood of record
04/23/1997

What this page does not tell you

It does not say whether any particular address is protected. A FEMA accreditation status describes this system measured against a design flood event, and USACE states that the database may not represent the totality of levees in the United States. If you need to know what applies to a specific property, your local floodplain administrator holds that answer. How to read an accreditation status.

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Where it is

Source: USACE National Levee Database, system 5705000062. Refreshed 2026-09-10. Values are reproduced as published. USACE updates the database irregularly and without a change feed, so the refresh date above is the age of what you are reading.