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 5 claims here since 2017.

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 39% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding71%Tornadoes10%Cold waves6%Strong wind6%Everything else8%

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

71% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 62% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Tornadoes

10% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 61% of U.S. places

Cold waves

6% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 42% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Strong wind

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 89% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 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.

5paid claims since 2017

$423Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20172026

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: Allegan County.

Disasters that hit Lee

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into LeeDeclared for Allegan County only

Allegan County has had 14 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and winter storms.

Around Lee

Lee and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Columbiamostly inland floodingModerate

Leemostly inland floodingLow

Cascomostly inland floodingLow

Cheshiremostly inland floodingLow

Clydemostly 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; 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 $564K 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.