Natural hazards · Felch

Felch, MI natural hazards

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

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Felch to be higher than in 23% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves and inland flooding.

Cold waves61%Inland flooding29%Everything else10%

By hazard

What Felch faces

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

Cold waves

61% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 61% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

29% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 41% 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 Felch flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Dickinson County.

Disasters that hit Felch

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into FelchDeclared for Dickinson County only

Dickinson County has had 3 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and winter storms.

Around Felch

Felch and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Norwaymostly cold wavesLow

Elymostly cold wavesLow

Felchmostly cold wavesLow

Sagolamostly cold wavesLow

Breenmostly cold wavesLow

West Branchmostly cold wavesLow

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. Felch covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Felch’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Felch. 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 Felch total about $1.5M 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.