Natural hazards · Frenchtown

Frenchtown, MI natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Frenchtown comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 275 claims here since 1978.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Frenchtown?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Frenchtown to be higher than in 40% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding62%Tornadoes14%Cold waves10%Strong wind5%Everything else10%

By hazard

What Frenchtown faces

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

Inland flooding

62% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 56% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

14% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 77% of U.S. places

Cold waves

10% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 58% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Strong wind

5% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 90% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Lower here

Coastal floodingHurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

Not a risk here

DroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Frenchtown flood?

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

275paid claims since 1978

$2.5Mpaid to owners

19homes flooded more than once

19782026

Homes that flooded again and again

■ FEMA “severe repetitive loss” (3) ■ flooded 2+ times

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Monroe County.

Disasters that hit Frenchtown

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into FrenchtownDeclared for Monroe County only

Monroe County has had 8 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and winter storms.

Around Frenchtown

Frenchtown and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Monroemostly inland floodingHigh

Raisinvillemostly inland floodingHigh

Monroemostly inland floodingModerate

Berlinmostly inland floodingModerate

Estral Beachmostly inland floodingModerate

Frenchtownmostly inland floodingModerate

Ashmostly inland floodingLow

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. Frenchtown covers 6 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Frenchtown’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Frenchtown. 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 Frenchtown total about $8.1M 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.