Natural hazards · Clarendon

Clarendon, MI natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Clarendon?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Clarendon to be higher than in 13% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding45%Tornadoes22%Strong wind14%Hail8%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Clarendon faces

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

Inland flooding

45% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 8% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Tornadoes

22% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 86% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 29 years in the area

Strong wind

14% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Hail

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 85% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat 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 Clarendon flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Calhoun County.

Disasters that hit Clarendon

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into ClarendonDeclared for Calhoun County only

Calhoun County has had 6 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often winter storms and floods.

Around Clarendon

Clarendon and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Butlermostly inland floodingLow

Tekonshamostly inland floodingLow

Homermostly inland floodingLow

Clarendonmostly inland floodingVery low

Eckfordmostly 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. Clarendon covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Clarendon’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Clarendon. 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 Clarendon total about $1.1M 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.