Natural hazards · Batavia

Batavia, MI natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Batavia comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Batavia?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Batavia to be higher than in 33% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding58%Tornadoes18%Cold waves7%Strong wind5%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Batavia faces

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

Inland flooding

58% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 46% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 100 years in the area

Tornadoes

18% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 89% of U.S. places

Cold waves

7% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 50% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Strong wind

5% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 74% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightningDrought

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Batavia flood?

FEMA's records show no paid flood insurance claims in Batavia.

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Branch County.

Disasters that hit Batavia

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into BataviaDeclared for Branch County only

Branch County has had 4 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often winter storms and hurricanes.

Around Batavia

Batavia and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Mattesonmostly inland floodingModerate

Bataviamostly inland floodingLow

Bethelmostly inland floodingLow

Unionmostly inland floodingLow

Coldwatermostly inland floodingVery low

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. Batavia covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Batavia’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Batavia. 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 Batavia total about $802K 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.