Natural hazards · Pleasantview

Pleasantview, MI natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Pleasantview 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 Pleasantview?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Pleasantview to be higher than in 23% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding69%Cold waves25%Everything else6%

By hazard

What Pleasantview faces

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

Inland flooding

69% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 54% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 6 years in the area

Cold waves

25% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 51% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

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 Pleasantview flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Emmet County.

Disasters that hit Pleasantview

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into PleasantviewDeclared for Emmet County only

Emmet County has had 5 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and ice storms.

Around Pleasantview

Pleasantview and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Centermostly inland floodingHigh

Maple Rivermostly inland floodingHigh

Littlefieldmostly inland floodingModerate

Pleasantviewmostly inland floodingLow

Little Traversemostly inland floodingVery low

Friendshipmostly inland floodingVery low

West Traversemostly 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. Pleasantview covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Pleasantview’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Pleasantview. 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 Pleasantview total about $737K 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.