Natural hazards · Kasson

Kasson, MI natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Kasson comes from cold waves, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Kasson?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Kasson to be higher than in 7% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves and inland flooding.

Cold waves65%Inland flooding27%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Kasson faces

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

Cold waves

65% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Inland flooding

27% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 26% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 4 years 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 Kasson flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Leelanau County.

Disasters that hit Kasson

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into KassonDeclared for Leelanau County only

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

Around Kasson

Kasson and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Empiremostly inland floodingLow

Solonmostly cold wavesVery low

Almiramostly inland floodingVery low

Kassonmostly cold wavesVery low

Clevelandmostly cold wavesVery 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. Kasson 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 Kasson’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Kasson. 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.