Natural hazards · Green

Green, MI natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Green comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 3 claims here since 2014.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Green?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Green to be higher than in 81% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and strong winds.

Inland flooding50%Strong wind35%Cold waves6%Tornadoes5%Everything else4%

By hazard

What Green 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

Well above average · higher than 81% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Strong wind

35% of expected damage

Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Cold waves

6% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 43% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

5% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 60% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 70 years 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 Green flood?

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

3paid claims since 2014

$79Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20142026

Biggest named events

2026-04-Flooding: 2 claims, $68K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Mecosta County.

Disasters that hit Green

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into GreenDeclared for Mecosta County only

Mecosta County has had 11 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and winter storms.

Around Green

Green and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Greenmostly inland floodingVery high

Big Rapidsmostly strong windsHigh

Herseymostly inland floodingHigh

Grantmostly strong windsHigh

Bartonmostly inland floodingLow

Richmondmostly 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. Green covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Green’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Green. 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 Green total about $3.0M 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.