Natural hazards · Glen Arbor

Glen Arbor, MI natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Glen Arbor comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 1987.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Glen Arbor?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

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

Inland flooding58%Cold waves35%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Glen Arbor faces

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

Inland flooding

58% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 53% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Cold waves

35% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 43% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

Coastal floodingHurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

DroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Glen Arbor flood?

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

1paid claims since 1987

$500paid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19872026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Leelanau County.

Disasters that hit Glen Arbor

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Glen ArborDeclared for Leelanau County only

Leelanau County has had 3 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and winter storms.

Around Glen Arbor

Glen Arbor and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Glen Arbormostly inland floodingLow

Empiremostly inland floodingLow

Clevelandmostly cold wavesVery 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. Glen Arbor covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Glen Arbor’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Glen Arbor. 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 Glen Arbor total about $1.7M 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.