Natural hazards · Pickford

Pickford, MI natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Pickford comes from inland flooding, 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 Pickford?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Pickford to be higher than in 11% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding86%Cold waves8%Everything else6%

By hazard

What Pickford faces

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

Inland flooding

86% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 36% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 5 years in the area

Cold waves

8% 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 Pickford flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Chippewa County.

Disasters that hit Pickford

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into PickfordDeclared for Chippewa County only

Chippewa County has had 5 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often winter storms and hurricanes.

Around Pickford

Pickford and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Soomostly inland floodingVery low

Marquettemostly inland floodingVery low

Pickfordmostly inland floodingVery low

Brucemostly inland floodingVery low

Rabermostly inland floodingVery low

Rudyardmostly inland floodingVery low

Clarkmostly inland floodingVery low

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