Natural hazards · Cedar

Cedar, MI natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Cedar 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 Cedar?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Cedar to be higher than in 20% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding46%Cold waves17%Strong wind14%Tornadoes10%Everything else13%

By hazard

What Cedar faces

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

Inland flooding

46% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 28% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Cold waves

17% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 41% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Strong wind

14% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 98% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

10% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 37 years in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingDroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Cedar flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Osceola County.

Disasters that hit Cedar

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into CedarDeclared for Osceola County only

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

Around Cedar

Cedar and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Herseymostly inland floodingHigh

Osceolamostly inland floodingLow

Cedarmostly inland floodingLow

Lincolnmostly inland floodingLow

Rose Lakemostly 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. Cedar covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Cedar’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Cedar. 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 Cedar total about $723K 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.