Menominee County, WI flood risk explained
Flood hazard in Menominee County sits at the 7.4th national percentile, among the lowest flood hazard in the country; driven by inland rivers and flash flooding rather than the coast — FEMA's model puts a flood event here at about once every 7 years. County-wide, not parcel-specific: FEMA's real flood-zone map is queried live, never shipped as a download.
Menominee County's flood-insurance compliance gap
FEMA hasn't published a residential structure count for Menominee County's mapped flood zone, so a reliable mandatory-compliance percentage can't be computed here — see the data quality guide for why this gap exists for roughly a quarter of US counties. Looking beyond the mandated zone, 0% of all residential structures in Menominee County carry flood coverage voluntarily or otherwise — relevant because most NFIP claims nationally come from outside the mapped SFHA.
Where Menominee County ranks
Among the 3144 US counties FEMA scores for flood hazard, Menominee County ranks 2925 — 1 being the highest hazard nationally — and 2867 by population among all 3144 counties covered here, where 1 is the largest. Menominee County, Wisconsin is home to about 4,286 people across 357.615 square miles of land.
What to do next if you own or are buying in Menominee County
Across all of Menominee County's 1,944 residential structures, 0 carry an NFIP policy today — a county-wide count that still can't tell you one address's own mapped zone.
Where Menominee County's figures come from
Every figure on this page traces to a named FEMA dataset, documented in the methodology guide. Menominee County's compliance figure is one of the ones affected by FEMA's incomplete denominator data — the data quality guide explains what that means and how many counties it touches.