Natural hazards · Akron

Akron, MI natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Akron comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 14 claims here since 1983.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Akron?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Akron to be higher than in 28% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding53%Cold waves26%Tornadoes8%Strong wind6%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Akron faces

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

Inland flooding

53% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 47% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Cold waves

26% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 58% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

8% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 30 years in the area

Strong wind

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 95% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Lower here

Coastal floodingHurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

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 Akron flood?

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

14paid claims since 1983

$106Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19832026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Tuscola County.

Disasters that hit Akron

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into AkronDeclared for Tuscola County only

Tuscola County has had 10 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and winter storms.

Around Akron

Akron and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Sebewaingmostly inland floodingModerate

Wisnermostly inland floodingLow

Fairgrovemostly inland floodingLow

Akronmostly inland floodingLow

Columbiamostly inland floodingLow

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. Akron is smaller than a census tract, so it shares the figures of the tract around its center.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Akron’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Akron. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

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.