Natural hazards · Menominee

Menominee, MI natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Menominee comes from cold waves, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 4 claims here since 1986.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Menominee?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

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

Cold waves50%Inland flooding34%Tornadoes6%Everything else10%

By hazard

What Menominee faces

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

Cold waves

50% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 58% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

34% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 32% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Tornadoes

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 56% of U.S. places

Lower here

Coastal floodingHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

HurricanesDroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Menominee flood?

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

4paid claims since 1986

$17Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19862026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Menominee County.

Disasters that hit Menominee

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into MenomineeDeclared for Menominee County only

Menominee County has had 6 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and hurricanes.

Around Menominee

Menominee and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Peshtigomostly cold wavesLow

Menomineemostly cold wavesVery low

Marinettemostly cold wavesVery low

Menomineemostly 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. Menominee covers 2 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Menominee’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Menominee. 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 Menominee total about $3.2M 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.