Natural hazards · Leonidas

Leonidas, MI natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Leonidas comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 4 claims here since 1986.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Leonidas?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Leonidas to be higher than in 53% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding70%Tornadoes9%Cold waves6%Everything else15%

By hazard

What Leonidas faces

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

Inland flooding

70% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 75% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 7 years in the area

Tornadoes

9% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 64% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 31 years in the area

Cold waves

6% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Leonidas flood?

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

4paid claims since 1986

$48Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19862026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: St. Joseph County.

Disasters that hit Leonidas

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into LeonidasDeclared for St. Joseph County only

St. Joseph County has had 6 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often winter storms and hurricanes.

Around Leonidas

Leonidas and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Leonidasmostly inland floodingModerate

Mendonmostly inland floodingModerate

Colonmostly inland floodingModerate

Bradymostly inland floodingLow

Wakeshmamostly inland floodingLow

Sherwoodmostly 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. Leonidas covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

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