Natural hazards · Inverness

Inverness, MI natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Inverness comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 2026.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Inverness?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Inverness to be higher than in 16% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding81%Cold waves13%Everything else6%

By hazard

What Inverness faces

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

Inland flooding

81% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 45% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 9 years in the area

Cold waves

13% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 51% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

Coastal floodingHurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

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 Inverness flood?

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

1paid claims since 2026

$13Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20262026

Biggest named events

2026-04-Flooding: 1 claim, $13K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Cheboygan County.

Disasters that hit Inverness

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into InvernessDeclared for Cheboygan County only

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

Around Inverness

Inverness and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Mullettmostly inland floodingHigh

Bentonmostly inland floodingModerate

Cheboyganmostly inland floodingLow

Beaugrandmostly inland floodingLow

Invernessmostly inland floodingVery low

Munromostly 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. Inverness is smaller than a census tract, so it shares the figures of the tract around its center.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Inverness’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Inverness. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

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.