Natural hazards · Chassell

Chassell, MI natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Chassell comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 5 claims here since 2014.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Chassell?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Chassell to be higher than in 46% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding69%Cold waves20%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Chassell faces

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

Inland flooding

69% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Cold waves

20% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lower here

Coastal floodingTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

Not a risk here

HurricanesEarthquakesAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Chassell flood?

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

5paid claims since 2014

$117Kpaid to owners

1homes flooded more than once

20142026

Homes that flooded again and again

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Houghton County.

Disasters that hit Chassell

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into ChassellDeclared for Houghton County only

Houghton County has had 7 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and hurricanes.

Around Chassell

Chassell and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Chassellmostly inland floodingModerate

Torch Lakemostly inland floodingLow

Baragamostly cold wavesLow

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