Natural hazards · Bliss

Bliss, MI natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Bliss?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Bliss to be higher than in 2% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding46%Cold waves46%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Bliss faces

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

Inland flooding

46% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 15% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 6 years in the area

Cold waves

46% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

Coastal floodingHurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

DroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Bliss flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Emmet County.

Disasters that hit Bliss

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into BlissDeclared for Emmet County only

Emmet County has had 5 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and ice storms.

Around Bliss

Bliss and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Centermostly inland floodingHigh

Blissmostly inland floodingVery low

Carp Lakemostly inland floodingVery low

Cross Villagemostly inland floodingVery low

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. Bliss covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Bliss’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Bliss. 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 Bliss total about $621K 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.