Natural hazards · Butler

Butler, MI natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Butler 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 Butler?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Butler to be higher than in 30% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding54%Tornadoes19%Cold waves9%Strong wind7%Hail5%Everything else6%

By hazard

What Butler faces

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

Inland flooding

54% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 42% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 100 years in the area

Tornadoes

19% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 89% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 22 years in the area

Cold waves

9% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 50% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Strong wind

7% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 74% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Hail

5% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 84% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesIce 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 Butler flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Branch County.

Disasters that hit Butler

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into ButlerDeclared for Branch County only

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

Around Butler

Butler and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Quincymostly inland floodingModerate

Butlermostly inland floodingLow

Girardmostly inland floodingLow

Litchfieldmostly inland floodingLow

Clarendonmostly 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. Butler 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 Butler’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Butler. 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.