Natural hazards · Dayton

Dayton, MI natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Dayton comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 5 claims here since 2019.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Dayton?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Dayton to be higher than in 27% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding62%Strong wind14%Cold waves8%Tornadoes7%Winter weather6%Everything else5%

By hazard

What Dayton faces

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

Inland flooding

62% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Strong wind

14% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Cold waves

8% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 35% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

7% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 48% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 59 years in the area

Winter weather

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 61% of U.S. places

Recorded about 25 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsHeat 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 Dayton flood?

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

5paid claims since 2019

$228Kpaid to owners

1homes flooded more than once

20192026

Biggest named events

2026-04-Flooding: 3 claims, $111K

Homes that flooded again and again

■ FEMA “severe repetitive loss” (0) ■ flooded 2+ times

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Newaygo County.

Disasters that hit Dayton

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into DaytonDeclared for Newaygo County only

Newaygo County has had 11 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

Around Dayton

Dayton and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Greenwoodmostly inland floodingModerate

Denvermostly inland floodingLow

Daytonmostly inland floodingLow

Sheridanmostly inland floodingLow

Shermanmostly inland floodingLow

Fremontmostly 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. Dayton 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 Dayton’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Dayton. 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.