Michigan

Comprehensive climate risk and disaster history profile

Billion-Dollar Events

$116.7B

Total Economic Impact

Counties

35.54

Avg Risk Score

Top Natural Hazards

Based on FEMA National Risk Index data across all 83 counties

Cold Wave

70.63 Avg Risk Score

Winter Weather

60.19 Avg Risk Score

Strong Wind

58.85 Avg Risk Score

Heat Wave

57.0 Avg Risk Score

Lightning

52.95 Avg Risk Score

Hail

52.52 Avg Risk Score

Tornado

50.93 Avg Risk Score

Wildfire

44.6 Avg Risk Score

Historical billion-dollar events by category (1980-2024)

severe-storm 28 events

$47.8B

winter-storm 4 events

$6.7B

flooding 4 events

$13.3B

drought 3 events

$19.0B

tropical-cyclone 1 events

$30.0B

How disaster frequency and costs have changed over time

Counties with the highest overall risk scores based on FEMA NRI

Rank	County	Risk Score	Risk Rating	SVI Percentile
1	Wayne	96.69	Relatively High	86.1%
2	Oakland	96.09	Relatively High	14.3%
3	Macomb	94.75	Relatively Moderate	40.8%
4	Genesee	89.28	Relatively Moderate	65.7%
5	Kent	88.67	Relatively Moderate	44.6%
6	Washtenaw	84.82	Relatively Moderate	32.2%
7	Ingham	82.95	Relatively Moderate	57.6%
8	Kalamazoo	80.56	Relatively Low	42.6%
9	Saginaw	79.03	Relatively Low	67.1%
10	Livingston	78.43	Relatively Low	0.4%