Natural hazards · Buckeye

Buckeye, MI natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Buckeye comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 3 claims here since 2020.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Buckeye?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Buckeye to be higher than in 20% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding53%Cold waves17%Tornadoes11%Strong wind8%Everything else10%

By hazard

What Buckeye faces

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

Inland flooding

53% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 35% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Cold waves

17% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 48% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

11% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 63% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 60 years in the area

Strong wind

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 93% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 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 Buckeye flood?

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

3paid claims since 2020

$670Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20202026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Gladwin County.

Disasters that hit Buckeye

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into BuckeyeDeclared for Gladwin County only

Gladwin County has had 9 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Buckeye

Buckeye and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Haymostly inland floodingModerate

Tobaccomostly inland floodingLow

Gladwinmostly inland floodingLow

Groutmostly inland floodingLow

Buckeyemostly inland floodingLow

Gladwinmostly 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. Buckeye covers 2 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Buckeye’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Buckeye. 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 Buckeye total about $2.6M 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.