Natural hazards · Douglass

Douglass, MI natural hazards

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

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Douglass to be higher than in 19% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding59%Strong wind13%Tornadoes13%Cold waves8%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Douglass faces

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

Inland flooding

59% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 33% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Strong wind

13% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

13% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 65% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 55 years in the area

Cold waves

8% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year 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 Douglass flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Montcalm County.

Disasters that hit Douglass

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into DouglassDeclared for Montcalm County only

Montcalm County has had 10 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and winter storms.

Around Douglass

Douglass and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Douglassmostly inland floodingVery low

Belvideremostly inland floodingVery low

Pinemostly inland floodingVery low

Stantonmostly inland floodingVery low

Sidneymostly inland floodingVery low

Montcalmmostly inland floodingVery low

Daymostly 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. Douglass covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Douglass’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Douglass. 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 Douglass 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.