FDIC Cert #15286 · Thief River Falls, Minnesota · Est. 1935

Northern State Bank of Thief River Falls - FDIC Bank Health Profile

A community-scale look at Northern State Bank of Thief River Falls's own numbers, pulled straight from its quarterly FDIC Call Report.

Compiled from official public sources by the publisher.
$494M
Total assets
A
Health grade · Excellent
0.94%
Return on assets
23.4%
Tier 1 capital

Data updated July 2026

The verdict

Northern State Bank of Thief River Falls earns a PlainBankData health grade of A (86/100), with well-capitalized at 23.36% Tier 1, 0.94% ROA, efficient (56% cost ratio).

#1,797
largest of 4,313 FDIC banks by assets
58th
percentile by asset size, nationally
23.36%
Tier 1 ratio - above the 10% well-capitalized line
39th
percentile for profitability (ROA), nationally

PlainBankData assigns this grade from public Call Report data; it isn't an official FDIC rating, and your deposits remain insured to $250,000 per depositor, per ownership category no matter the score.

FDIC Call Report plate

Cert 15286 · MN A · 86/100

GRADE-A · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · TIER1-WELL · TEXAS-CLEAN · ROA-PAR · SIZE-MID · BOOK-FULL

  • GRADE-A A (86/100)
  • MID-PACK #1310/4307
  • PHOTO-FINISH Farmers and Merchant… · NE
  • TIER1-WELL 23.4% Tier 1
  • TEXAS-CLEAN 1.4% Texas
  • ROA-PAR 0.94% ROA
  • SIZE-MID $100M–1B
  • BOOK-FULL 9/9 fields

Nearest health peer outside Minnesota: Farmers and Merchants Bank, NE (±0 health pts)

Instrument codes from this bank’s FDIC Call Report sheet: grade band, health peer rank, photo-finish gap, Tier 1, Texas Ratio, ROA, size band, and book completeness. Not an official FDIC rating.

Health-score neighbourhood around Northern State Bank of Thief River Fa…

Lowest and highest poles plus nearest scored peers outside Minnesota, not a full FDIC corpus board reprint.

Morgan Stanley Bank,… · UT ·…100/100Columbus State Bank · TX · n…86/100Elderton State Bank · PA · n…86/100Farmers and Merchant… · NE ·…86/100Northern State Bank… · MN · …86/100Southside Bank · TX · near86/100Tioga-Franklin Savin… · PA ·…0/100
PlainBankData health composite · neighbourhood around Northern State Bank of Thief River Fa… · July 2026

Call Report read for Northern State Bank of Thief River Fa… in a high-failure state

Northern State Bank of Thief River Falls (FDIC Cert #15286) carries a PlainBankData health grade of A at 86/100, built only from this bank's own Call Report Tier 1 capital, ROA, Texas Ratio, and efficiency inputs. On the scored corpus it sits at health rank #1,310 of 4,307. Tier 1 capital prints at 23.36%, clearing the 10% well-capitalized line. The Texas Ratio is 1.39%, inside the sub-50% band analysts treat as healthy. Return on assets is 0.94%. Balance-sheet scale is $494M, 1,797th of 4,313 FDIC-insured banks by assets. The nearest cross-state health peer is Farmers and Merchants Bank (NE), tied on the composite. These are instrument codes from the Call Report sheet, not an official FDIC CAMELS rating, and insured deposits stay protected to $250,000 per depositor per ownership category regardless of grade. Compare the plate stamps against the score breakdown and the health-score neighbourhood before treating any single ratio as decisive.

State failure history around Northern State Bank of Thief River Fa…

24 FAILURE resolutions in Minnesota since 2000, heavy vs the state corpus

Northern State Bank of Thief River Falls sits in one of the heavier post-2000 FAILURE states (24 resolutions; latest year 2014). The list below is state history from the Failed Bank List, not a claim about Northern State Bank of Thief River Falls's current Call Report.

  • NORTHERN STAR BANK MANKATO, MN 2014 → BANKVISTA
  • 1ST REGENTS BANK ANDOVER, MN 2013 → FIRST MINNESOTA BANK
  • FIRST COMMERCIAL BANK BLOOMINGTON, MN 2012 → REPUBLIC BANK & TRUST COMPANY

Source: FDIC Failed Bank List (resolution_type=FAILURE only; ASSISTANCE excluded). See the depositor failures guide and Minnesota banks.

How Northern State Bank of Thief River Falls's 86/100 score adds up

Each factor is scored from this bank's own FDIC Call Report figures, then summed to the composite health score.

0/100100/100National avg77/10086/100
Northern State Bank of Thief River Falls's composite health score
Tier 1 Capital Ratio (23.36%) 40/40
Return on Assets (ROA) (0.94%) 14/25
Texas Ratio (1.39%) 20/20
Efficiency Ratio (56.16%) 12/15

86 of 100 points earned across four weighted factors. See our methodology for the full scoring formula.

Balance sheet at a glance

Total Assets

$494M

Total balance-sheet footings

Total Deposits

$445M

Customer-funded liabilities

Net Loans

$196M

Outstanding loan book

Net Income

$4M

Bottom-line earnings

Capital adequacy vs federal thresholds

0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% CET1 (≥6.5% req.) Tier 1 (≥8.0% req.) Total (≥10.0% req.) 21.96% 23.36% 24.76%
Basel III capital ratios - Northern State Bank of Thief River Falls

Where Northern State Bank of Thief River Falls ranks

Every one of the 4,307 FDIC-insured banks with a computed health score, bucketed by score. Northern State Bank of Thief River Falls's score of 86/100 falls in the highlighted band.

Northern State Bank of Thief River Falls: health score vs. every FDIC-insured bank

0-100 composite health score, FDIC Call Reports

86 Top 30% higher than 70% of 4,307 FDIC-insured banks

0–10: 3 FDIC-insured banks (0%). Below this entry. 10–20: 6 FDIC-insured banks (0%). Below this entry. 20–30: 26 FDIC-insured banks (1%). Below this entry. 30–40: 36 FDIC-insured banks (1%). Below this entry. 40–50: 98 FDIC-insured banks (2%). Below this entry. 50–60: 279 FDIC-insured banks (6%). Below this entry. 60–70: 777 FDIC-insured banks (18%). Below this entry. 70–80: 1,030 FDIC-insured banks (24%). Below this entry. 80–90: 1,237 FDIC-insured banks (29%). This entry sits in this band. 90–100: 815 FDIC-insured banks (19%). Above this entry. Northern State Bank of Thief River Fa… 0 100 every FDIC-insured bank with a health score, bucketed by value

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Source FDIC Call Reports · July 2026

Northern State Bank of Thief River Falls's size among FDIC-insured banks

Every one of the 4,307 FDIC-insured banks with reported assets, bucketed by total-asset scale (note the buckets are powers of 10, most banks cluster in the $100M-$1B range). Northern State Bank of Thief River Falls's $494M falls in the highlighted band.

Capital & credit buffers at Northern State Bank of Thief River Fa…

Tier 1 capital ratio
Well-capitalized 10%

23.36% of risk-weighted assets - above the federal "well-capitalized" threshold of 10%.

Tier 1 Capital Ratio
23.36%
Texas Ratio
1.39%
Equity Capital
$48M

What these ratios mean →

Profitability metrics: Northern State Bank of Thief River Fa…

Return on Assets (ROA)
39th percentile nationally
0.94%
Return on Equity (ROE)
9.12%
Efficiency Ratio
56.16%

What these mean →

Income & expense at Northern State Bank of Thief River Fa…

$22M
Interest Income
$766K
Non-Interest Income
$7M
Non-Interest Expense

Asset quality, Texas Ratio detail

The Texas Ratio compares troubled assets to the capital available to absorb losses. Northern State Bank of Thief River Falls reports a Texas Ratio of 1.39% - comfortably in the healthy band; non-performing loans are a small fraction of the bank’s loss-absorbing capital.

Texas Ratio
Caution 50%

1.39% - lower is safer; 100% is the level at which troubled assets equal loss-absorbing capital.

FDIC Failed Bank List → View Northern State Bank of Thief River Falls on FDIC BankFind →

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  2. 2
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  3. 3
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  4. 4
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  5. 5
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Top 5 banks in Minnesota ranked by total assets · FDIC Call Report Q4 2025.

Nationwide banks with similar total assets

Nearest other-state banks with ≥$10M assets ($494M here), outside Minnesota so the neighborhood is not state containment.

Silver Lake Bank $494M · KS The FNB Community Bank $494M · IL Peoples Bank $494M · IA Bank3 $495M · TN

Source: FDIC BankFind Suite, Call Report (FFIEC 031/041) Northern State Bank of Thief River Falls (FDIC Cert #15286) - Tier 1 capital ratio, total assets, deposits, ROA/ROE · 2025 FDIC Call Reports filed quarterly; latest publicly-available vintage shown. Health grades are PlainBankData's interpretation of regulatory filings and are not official FDIC ratings.

Northern State Bank of Thief River Falls Call Report profile · FDIC Failed Bank List · Minnesota FAILURE history · Informational only, not financial advice; consult a licensed professional before acting. See the disclaimer and methodology.

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