Natural hazards · Beaver

Beaver, MI natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Beaver comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 2 claims here since 2017.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Beaver?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Beaver to be higher than in 50% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding55%Cold waves22%Tornadoes10%Strong wind6%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Beaver faces

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

Inland flooding

55% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 72% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Cold waves

22% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 54% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

10% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 63% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 69 years in the area

Strong wind

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 92% 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 Beaver flood?

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

2paid claims since 2017

$12Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20172026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Bay County.

Disasters that hit Beaver

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into BeaverDeclared for Bay County only

Bay County has had 12 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Beaver

Beaver and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Beavermostly inland floodingModerate

Williamsmostly inland floodingLow

Garfieldmostly inland floodingLow

Larkinmostly inland floodingLow

Kawkawlinmostly 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. Beaver covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Beaver’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Beaver. 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 Beaver total about $1.2M 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.