Natural hazards · Blissfield

Blissfield, MI natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Blissfield comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 28 claims here since 1981. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Blissfield?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Blissfield to be higher than in 66% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding67%Tornadoes11%Cold waves10%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Blissfield faces

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

Inland flooding

67% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 82% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

11% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 81% of U.S. places

Cold waves

10% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 56% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

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 Blissfield flood?

Every paid claim on a federal flood insurance policy in Blissfield, from FEMA’s records.

28paid claims since 1981

$297Kpaid to owners

4homes flooded more than once

19812026

Homes that flooded again and again

■ FEMA “severe repetitive loss” (0) ■ flooded 2+ times

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Lenawee County.

Disasters that hit Blissfield

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Blissfield itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the Village of Blissfield.

Brought FEMA money into BlissfieldDeclared for Lenawee County only

1999

Mi - Severe Weather 1/2 /99

$5K to the Village of Blissfield for repairs

Lenawee County has had 4 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often winter storms and hurricanes.

Around Blissfield

Blissfield and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Blissfieldmostly inland floodingHigh

Rigamostly inland floodingHigh

Blissfieldmostly inland floodingModerate

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. Blissfield is smaller than a census tract, so it shares the figures of the tract around its center.

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

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.