Natural hazards · Ferris

Ferris, MI natural hazards

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

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Ferris to be higher than in 24% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding51%Tornadoes18%Strong wind16%Cold waves8%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Ferris faces

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

Inland flooding

51% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Tornadoes

18% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 79% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 30 years in the area

Strong wind

16% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 3 times a year 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 Ferris flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Ferris 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 Ferris

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into FerrisDeclared for Montcalm County only

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

Around Ferris

Ferris and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Sumnermostly inland floodingHigh

Ferrismostly inland floodingLow

Richlandmostly inland floodingLow

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. Ferris covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Ferris’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Ferris. 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 Ferris total about $1.5M 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.