Natural hazards · Pentland

Pentland, MI natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Pentland?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Pentland to be higher than in 26% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding85%Everything else15%

By hazard

What Pentland faces

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

Inland flooding

85% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 28 years in the area

Lower here

Coastal floodingTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

Not a risk here

HurricanesAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Pentland flood?

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

Disasters that hit Pentland

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into PentlandDeclared for Luce County only

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

Around Pentland

Pentland and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Pentlandmostly inland floodingLow

Lakefieldmostly inland floodingLow

Garfieldmostly inland floodingVery low

Hudsonmostly inland floodingVery low

McMillanmostly inland floodingVery low

Hulbertmostly 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. Pentland 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 Pentland’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Pentland. 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.