Natural hazards · Pennfield

Pennfield, MI natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Pennfield comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 6 claims here since 1985.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Pennfield?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Pennfield to be higher than in 44% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding54%Tornadoes18%Strong wind11%Cold waves9%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Pennfield faces

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

Inland flooding

54% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Tornadoes

18% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 86% of U.S. places

Strong wind

11% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 96% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Cold waves

9% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 50% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingDroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Pennfield flood?

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

6paid claims since 1985

$32Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19852026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Calhoun County.

Disasters that hit Pennfield

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into PennfieldDeclared for Calhoun County only

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

Around Pennfield

Pennfield and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Pennfieldmostly inland floodingModerate

Convismostly inland floodingLow

Emmettmostly inland floodingLow

Bedfordmostly inland floodingLow

Battle Creekmostly inland floodingLow

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. Pennfield covers 2 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Pennfield’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Pennfield. 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 Pennfield total about $1.7M 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.