Iowa has recorded 18 federally declared disasters since 2016, floods, severe storms, and a surprise May blizzard among them, and Cedar Rapids sits squarely in the path of most of them.

North Dakota has logged 18 federally declared disasters since 2016, floods, fires, severe storms, and back-to-back blizzards, and Fargo's Red River Valley sits at the center of the most recurring ones.

Iowa has logged 18 federally declared disasters since 2016, and Davenport's position on the Mississippi River means flooding, severe storms, and tornado-driven deluges hit harder here than anywhere else in the Quad Cities corridor.

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