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

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.
2009
The 2009 Red River flood along the Red River of the North in North Dakota and Minnesota in the United States and Manitoba in Canada brought record flood levels to the Fargo-Moorhead area. The flood was a result of saturated and frozen ground, Spring snowmelt exacerbated by additional rain and snow storms, and virtually flat terrain. Communities along the Red River prepared for more than a week as the U.S. National Weather Service continuously updated the predictions for the city of Fargo, North Dakota with an increasingly higher projected river crest. Originally predicted to reach a level of near 43 feet (13 m) at Fargo by March 29, the river in fact crested at 40.82 feet (12.44 m) at 12:15 a.m. March 28, and started a slow decline. The river continued to rise to the north as the crest moved downstream.