2011 Red River Flood, North Dakota, Minnesota, United States

2011
The 2011 Red River Flood took place on the along the Red River of the North in North Dakota and Minnesota in the United States and Manitoba in Canada beginning in April 2011. The flood was in part to high moisture levels in the soil from the previous year which meant that further accumulation would threaten flood stage. Flood predictors were worried of a dual crest of both the Assiniboine River and the Red striking Winnipeg at the same time. Beginning around April 8th, 50 homes were evacuated and two more were flooded after an ice jam in St. Andrews pushed the river to burst its banks. Three fatalities were blamed on the flood by 8 April all in the US; one was a man who died while sandbagging in Fargo-Moorhead, while the other two were men who drowned in the Maple River when their boat capsized while hunting beavers. A fourth man died in Niverville, Manitoba on 9 April when his vehicle skidded off a flooded road and submerged.