Natural hazards · Pine Grove

Pine Grove, MI natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Pine Grove 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 Pine Grove?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Pine Grove to be higher than in 38% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding45%Tornadoes16%Hail14%Strong wind11%Cold waves7%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Pine Grove faces

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

Inland flooding

45% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Tornadoes

16% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 81% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 80 years in the area

Hail

14% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Strong wind

11% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Cold waves

7% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 33% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesIce 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 Pine Grove flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Van Buren County.

Disasters that hit Pine Grove

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Pine GroveDeclared for Van Buren County only

Van Buren County has had 11 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often winter storms and floods.

Around Pine Grove

Pine Grove and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Almenamostly inland floodingModerate

Pine Grovemostly inland floodingLow

Alamomostly inland floodingLow

Goblesmostly inland floodingLow

Bloomingdalemostly 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. Pine Grove covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Pine Grove’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Pine Grove. 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 Pine Grove total about $606K 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.