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Frazee, Minnesota

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Frazee City. It lies in ZIP code area 56544. The Survey maps it on the Frazee quadrangle. 1,335 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,388 feet above sea level.

Frazee within Becker County

Population over time

2 figures

Frazee fell from 1,350 to 1,335 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20101,350
20201,335-15 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

64 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Frazee between 1992 and 2019, burning about 376 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 18 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning27
Arson/incendiarism18
Equipment and vehicle use7
Smoking4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
5 September 2003Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 September 2012Arson/incendiarism1.2 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresFergus Falls Wetland Management DistrictWIRTH
15 September 2012Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 August 2015Power generation/transmission/distribution1.2 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Becker County

Storms near this place

40 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Frazee in 40 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 17 hail, 16 thunderstorm wind, 3 lightning, 2 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1998Thunderstorm WindFrazee$50,000Seventeen large trees were downed on a farmstead, one landing on a car. Nearby, 2 large turkey barns were damaged, and 30 trees were flattened.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindFrazee$40,000Numerous trees and powerlines were blown down by the strong wind. One tree fell on a car.
June 1997LightningFrazee$30,000Lightning struck a house near Acorn Lake, igniting a fire in the attic.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindFrazee$15,000A 33 foot camper was rolled over by the wind at Eagle Lake.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindFrazee$10,000Metal roofing was peeled off of a garage. Time estimated based on radar.
July 2008Tornado (EF0)Frazee$5,000This tornado touched down intermittently along a roughly 10 mile track to about 3 miles west-northwest of Wolf Lake. Several large trees were blown over or snapped off at points along the track. Peak winds were estimated at 80 mph.
October 2004LightningFrazee$5,000Lightning struck a large tree twice in less than 30 seconds. The tree was less than a foot from a house in which two people were sleeping. The loud noise gave one of the occupants a concussion. The electrical surge also wrecked several appliances.
September 2008LightningFrazee$1,000A man driving to work in Detroit Lakes on U.S. Highway 10 was struck by lightning. The strike left marks on the vehicle, but the man was not injured. A rear tire was also blown out and the car's generator was damaged.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindFrazee$500Large tree branches were blown down.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindFrazee$500Trees were blown down.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindFrazee$400Trees were downed in the strong wind.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindFrazee-Machine shed lost roof and trees snapped near Eagle lake.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindFrazee-Broadcast media relays photo of a large tree down in Frazee, MN.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindFrazee-Broadcast media relays photo of a tree down in Frazee. Time estimated.
August 2023HailFrazee-Public reports 1.25 inch hail 1 E Frazee. Relayed via Broadcast Media.
July 2022HailFrazee-Received a public report of hail relayed via broadcast media partner.
October 2021Thunderstorm WindFrazee-NWS Storm Damage Survey of the northwest shore of Eagle Lake, 3 miles west of Frazee, revealed two uprooted 18 to 24-inch pine trees and a flipped dock. Another dock had three aluminum deck panels ripped from it. Eyewitnesses to the event stated trees fell and aluminum deck panels flew in the same direction, indicating straight-line microburst winds. One tree caused a slight indentation of an asphalt driveway. Evaluation of damage indicators resulted in estimated 75 to 90 mph winds.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindFrazee-A 2-foot diameter birch tree was uprooted. Relayed via the Spotter Network, time estimated by radar.
July 2021HailFrazee-Report of 1.25 inch hail received via social media.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindFrazee-Numerous large trees were blown down, blocking lanes of U. S. Highway 10 between Detroit Lakes and Frazee.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindFrazee-Three to five inch diameter tree branches were blown down and assorted debris was blown around a farm yard.
August 2015HailFrazee-The large hail damaged a house and vehicle.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindFrazee-A large apple tree was broken in two by the strong winds.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindFrazee-The winds gusted from fifty-five to sixty miles per hour.
July 2008Funnel CloudFrazee-A funnel cloud was observed passing over Frazee and continuing to the east-northeast of town.
May 2004Tornado (F0)Frazee-A half-mile damage path occurred near Six Lake.
July 2018HailFrazee-no account filed
August 2015HailFrazee-no account filed
July 2014HailFrazee-no account filed
June 2013HailFrazee-no account filed
June 2008Funnel CloudFrazee-no account filed
July 2008HailFrazee-no account filed
July 2008HailFrazee-no account filed
June 2007HailFrazee-no account filed
August 2007HailFrazee-no account filed
August 2007HailFrazee-no account filed
August 2007HailFrazee-no account filed
August 2002HailFrazee-no account filed
August 2002HailFrazee-no account filed
August 1998HailFrazee-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Becker County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Town Lake Estates0.0 miles12
Rochert9.1 miles11
Detroit Lakes9.8 miles10
Shoreham10.7 miles11
Bucks Mill11.4 miles16
Evergreen13.4 miles10
Richards13.5 miles11
Lake Eunice14.3 miles16

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on FrazeeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1933878The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 643899. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.