Natural hazards · Bainbridge

Bainbridge, MI natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Bainbridge comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community.

FEMA National Risk Index, December 2025 · OpenFEMA claims, aid & declarations

Expected damage

How exposed is Bainbridge?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Bainbridge to be higher than in 21% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding59%Cold waves17%Tornadoes11%Strong wind6%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Bainbridge faces

Each hazard’s share of the damage FEMA expects here, and how that compares with the rest of the country.

Inland flooding

59% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 43% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Cold waves

17% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 18% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

11% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 60% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 74 years in the area

Strong wind

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 51% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingDroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic activity

Flood risk changes street by street. Check a specific address on FEMA’s flood map, and ask about flood insurance before you buy.

Flood insurance claims

Does Bainbridge flood?

FEMA's records show no paid flood insurance claims in Bainbridge.

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Bainbridge isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.

Insurance rates: Berrien County.

Disasters that hit Bainbridge

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for Berrien County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Bainbridge itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into BainbridgeDeclared for Berrien County only

Berrien County has had 10 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and winter storms.

Around Bainbridge

Bainbridge and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Keelermostly inland floodingLow

Pipestonemostly inland floodingLow

Bainbridgemostly inland floodingLow

Bentonmostly inland floodingLow

About these numbers

How to read this page

An average, not a forecastFEMA’s National Risk Index estimates the damage 18 kinds of natural hazards cause in a typical year, from decades of records and models. A quiet decade can follow a bad year.

Compared by rate“Higher than N%” compares yearly damage as a share of what’s here, so a big city isn’t rated riskier just for having more buildings. Bainbridge covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Bainbridge’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Bainbridge. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

FEMA’s expected losses across Bainbridge total about $796K a year, counting buildings, people and crops.

Sources: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025); OpenFEMA: NFIP redacted claims, multiple-loss properties, community status book and residential penetration rates, housing assistance (owners and renters), public assistance funded projects, hazard mitigation properties and disaster declarations. Census tracts: U.S. Census Bureau.