Natural hazards · Tilden

Tilden, MI natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Tilden comes from cold waves, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 2023.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Tilden?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

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

Cold waves46%Inland flooding29%Hail14%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Tilden faces

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

Cold waves

46% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 59% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

29% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 23% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Hail

14% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 97% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesEarthquakesAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Tilden flood?

Every paid claim on a federal flood insurance policy in Tilden, from FEMA’s records.

1paid claims since 2023

$23Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20232026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Marquette County.

Disasters that hit Tilden

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into TildenDeclared for Marquette County only

Marquette County has had 9 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and winter storms.

Around Tilden

Tilden and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Richmondmostly cold wavesLow

Forsythmostly cold wavesLow

Ishpemingmostly cold wavesLow

Tildenmostly cold wavesLow

Elymostly cold wavesLow

West Branchmostly cold wavesLow

Ishpemingmostly 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. Tilden covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Tilden’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Tilden. 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 Tilden total about $1.3M 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.