Natural hazards · Green Oak

Green Oak, MI natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Green Oak comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 15 claims here since 1989.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Green Oak?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

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

Inland flooding52%Tornadoes23%Cold waves11%Strong wind8%Everything else6%

By hazard

What Green Oak faces

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

Inland flooding

52% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 37% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

23% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 82% of U.S. places

Cold waves

11% 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 95% 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 Green Oak flood?

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

15paid claims since 1989

$166Kpaid to owners

2homes flooded more than once

19892026

Biggest named events

Hurricane Ike: 1 claim, $10K

Homes that flooded again and again

■ FEMA “severe repetitive loss” (1) ■ flooded 2+ times

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Green Oak 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 Green Oak

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Green OakDeclared for Livingston County only

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

Around Green Oak

Green Oak and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Northfieldmostly inland floodingLow

Hamburgmostly inland floodingLow

Green Oakmostly inland floodingLow

Brightonmostly inland floodingLow

Lyonmostly inland floodingVery low

South Lyonmostly inland floodingVery low

Brightonmostly 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 Oak covers 6 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Green Oak’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Green Oak. 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 Oak total about $6.4M 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.