Natural hazards · Marquette

Marquette, MI natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Marquette 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 Marquette?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Marquette to be higher than in 4% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves and inland flooding.

Cold waves56%Inland flooding23%Hail13%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Marquette faces

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

Cold waves

56% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 59% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

23% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 5% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Hail

13% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 95% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

Coastal floodingTornadoesIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

Not a risk here

HurricanesEarthquakesAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Marquette flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Marquette County.

Disasters that hit Marquette

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into MarquetteDeclared for Marquette County only

Marquette County has had 9 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and winter storms.

Around Marquette

Marquette and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Sandsmostly cold wavesLow

Powellmostly inland floodingLow

Negauneemostly cold wavesVery low

Ishpemingmostly cold wavesVery low

Marquettemostly 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. Marquette covers 2 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Marquette’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Marquette. 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 Marquette total about $2.2M 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.