Flood — Marquette, Michigan

2023-04-12 to 2023-04-24 · near Witch Lake, Marquette, Michigan

$7.0M

Property damage

Event narrative

Fairly widespread flooding was observed across a large portion of Marquette County with flooding observed along the Chocolay, Escanaba and Michigamme Rivers. Some of the most severe and longest-duration flooding was along the Michigamme River near Republic and Witch Lake. On April 24th Marquette County officials described extensive and significant flooding damage to 25+ roads and 7+ crossings with damage estimates exceeding $7 million. Marquette County was added to the state of emergency declaration on 4/21 by Governor Whitmer to aid in flood recovery efforts.

Wider weather episode

Rapid melting of much above normal snowpack caused widespread, and at times, extensive flooding over portions of west and central Upper Michigan from the 12th into the 25th. Extensive impacts from the flooding caused Governor Whitmer to declare a state of emergency declaration for eight counties in west and central Upper Michigan on the 21st.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1093577. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.