Natural hazards · Cohoctah

Cohoctah, MI natural hazards

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

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Cohoctah to be higher than in 26% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding50%Tornadoes23%Cold waves13%Strong wind8%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Cohoctah faces

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

Inland flooding

50% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 38% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

23% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 80% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 52 years in the area

Cold waves

13% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 51% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Strong wind

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 96% of U.S. places

Recorded about 6 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 Cohoctah flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Livingston County.

Disasters that hit Cohoctah

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into CohoctahDeclared for Livingston County only

Livingston County has had 6 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and winter storms.

Around Cohoctah

Cohoctah and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Burnsmostly inland floodingLow

Conwaymostly inland floodingLow

Cohoctahmostly inland floodingLow

Deerfieldmostly inland floodingVery low

Howellmostly 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. Cohoctah covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Cohoctah’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Cohoctah. 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 Cohoctah total about $901K 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.