Natural hazards · Soo

Soo, MI natural hazards

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

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Soo to be higher than in 17% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding85%Cold waves9%Everything else6%

By hazard

What Soo 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

Below average · higher than 46% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 5 years in the area

Cold waves

9% 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 Soo flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Soo 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 Soo

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into SooDeclared for Chippewa County only

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

Around Soo

Soo and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Soomostly inland floodingVery low

Sugar Islandmostly inland floodingVery low

Rabermostly inland floodingVery low

Brucemostly inland floodingVery low

Pickfordmostly inland floodingVery low

Bay Millsmostly inland floodingVery low

Daftermostly inland floodingVery low

Sault Ste. Mariemostly 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. Soo 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 Soo’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Soo. 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.