Natural hazards · Crystal Falls

Crystal Falls, MI natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Crystal Falls 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 Crystal Falls?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Crystal Falls to be higher than in 39% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves and inland flooding.

Cold waves70%Inland flooding22%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Crystal Falls faces

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

Cold waves

70% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

22% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 61% 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 Crystal Falls flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Iron County.

Disasters that hit Crystal Falls

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Crystal FallsDeclared for Iron County only

Iron County has had 5 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and hurricanes.

Around Crystal Falls

Crystal Falls and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Republicmostly inland floodingModerate

Crystal Fallsmostly cold wavesLow

Mansfieldmostly cold wavesLow

Spurrmostly cold wavesLow

Hematitemostly cold wavesLow

Batesmostly cold wavesLow

Crystal Fallsmostly cold wavesVery low

Mastodonmostly 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. Crystal Falls covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Crystal Falls’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Crystal Falls. 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 Crystal Falls total about $2.9M 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.