Natural hazards · Edwards

Edwards, MI natural hazards

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

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Edwards to be higher than in 30% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and hail.

Inland flooding46%Hail17%Cold waves13%Strong wind10%Tornadoes7%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Edwards 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 37% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 7 years in the area

Hail

17% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Cold waves

13% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 46% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Strong wind

10% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

7% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 57 years in the area

Lower here

HurricanesIce 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 Edwards flood?

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

Disasters that hit Edwards

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into EdwardsDeclared for Ogemaw County only

Ogemaw County has had 5 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often winter storms and floods.

Around Edwards

Edwards and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Nestermostly inland floodingModerate

Edwardsmostly inland floodingLow

Hortonmostly inland floodingLow

Clementmostly inland floodingLow

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