Natural hazards · Breitung

Breitung, MI natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Breitung comes from cold waves, 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 Breitung?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Breitung to be higher than in 32% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves and inland flooding.

Cold waves62%Inland flooding29%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Breitung faces

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

Cold waves

62% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 61% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

29% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 54% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Breitung flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Dickinson County.

Disasters that hit Breitung

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into BreitungDeclared for Dickinson County only

Dickinson County has had 3 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and winter storms.

Around Breitung

Breitung and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Niagaramostly cold wavesLow

Breitungmostly cold wavesLow

Norwaymostly cold wavesLow

Auroramostly cold wavesLow

Sagolamostly cold wavesLow

Iron Mountainmostly cold wavesVery low

Kingsfordmostly cold wavesVery low

Mastodonmostly cold wavesVery low

Norwaymostly cold wavesVery low

Florencemostly cold wavesVery 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. Breitung 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 Breitung’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Breitung. 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.