Natural hazards · Littlefield

Littlefield, MI natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Littlefield comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Littlefield?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Littlefield to be higher than in 51% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding72%Cold waves22%Everything else6%

By hazard

What Littlefield faces

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

Inland flooding

72% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 79% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 6 years in the area

Cold waves

22% 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 Littlefield flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Emmet County.

Disasters that hit Littlefield

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into LittlefieldDeclared for Emmet County only

Emmet County has had 5 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and ice storms.

Around Littlefield

Littlefield and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Tuscaroramostly inland floodingHigh

Maple Rivermostly inland floodingHigh

Littlefieldmostly inland floodingModerate

Springvalemostly inland floodingModerate

Pleasantviewmostly inland floodingLow

Little Traversemostly 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. Littlefield 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 Littlefield’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Littlefield. 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.