Natural hazards · Meade

Meade, MI natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Meade comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 2 claims here since 2007.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Meade?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Meade to be higher than in 43% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding57%Cold waves24%Tornadoes6%Strong wind6%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Meade faces

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

Inland flooding

57% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 65% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Cold waves

24% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 58% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 63% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 36 years in the area

Strong wind

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 93% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

Coastal floodingHurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

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 Meade flood?

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

2paid claims since 2007

$12Kpaid to owners

1homes flooded more than once

20072026

Homes that flooded again and again

■ FEMA “severe repetitive loss” (0) ■ flooded 2+ times

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Huron County.

Disasters that hit Meade

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into MeadeDeclared for Huron County only

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

Around Meade

Meade and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Meademostly inland floodingModerate

Chandlermostly inland floodingModerate

Humemostly inland floodingLow

Lincolnmostly inland floodingLow

Colfaxmostly 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. Meade is smaller than a census tract, so it shares the figures of the tract around its center.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Meade’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Meade. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

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.