Natural hazards · Midway

Midway, FL natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Midway comes from hurricanes, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1,406 claims here since 1979.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Midway?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Midway to be higher than in 84% of U.S. communities, mostly from hurricanes.

Hurricanes65%Inland flooding14%Tornadoes9%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Midway faces

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

Hurricanes

65% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 96% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Inland flooding

14% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 17% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

9% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 66% of U.S. places

Lower here

Coastal floodingHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat 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 Midway flood?

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

1,406paid claims since 1979

$128Mpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19792026

Biggest named events

Hurricane Ivan: 748 claims, $109M
Hurricane Opal: 148 claims, $1.7M
Hurricane Sally: 129 claims, $3.9M

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Santa Rosa County.

Disasters that hit Midway

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into MidwayDeclared for Santa Rosa County only

Santa Rosa County has had 36 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and severe storms.

Around Midway

Midway and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Navarremostly hurricanesVery high

Midwaymostly hurricanesVery high

Woodlawn Beachmostly hurricanesVery high

Oriole Beachmostly hurricanesVery high

Tiger Pointmostly hurricanesVery high

Gulf Breezemostly hurricanesVery high

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. Midway covers 4 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Midway’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Midway. 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 Midway total about $12.1M 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.