Natural hazards · Lee

Lee, MI natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Lee comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 2 claims here since 1982.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Lee?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Lee to be higher than in 38% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding50%Tornadoes19%Strong wind13%Cold waves10%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Lee faces

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

Inland flooding

50% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Tornadoes

19% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 87% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 19 years in the area

Strong wind

13% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Cold waves

10% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 50% 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 Lee flood?

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

2paid claims since 1982

$6Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19822026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Calhoun County.

Disasters that hit Lee

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into LeeDeclared for Calhoun County only

Calhoun County has had 6 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often winter storms and floods.

Around Lee

Lee and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Leemostly inland floodingLow

Convismostly inland floodingLow

Clarencemostly inland floodingLow

Waltonmostly inland floodingLow

Marengomostly 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. Lee covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Lee’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Lee. 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 Lee total about $1.0M 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.