Natural hazards · Vevay

Vevay, MI natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Vevay comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Vevay?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Vevay to be higher than in 22% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding43%Tornadoes26%Strong wind11%Cold waves11%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Vevay faces

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

Inland flooding

43% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 21% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Tornadoes

26% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 91% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 36 years in the area

Strong wind

11% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Cold waves

11% 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 Vevay flood?

FEMA's records show no paid flood insurance claims in Vevay.

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Ingham County.

Disasters that hit Vevay

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into VevayDeclared for Ingham County only

Ingham County has had 8 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often winter storms and floods.

Around Vevay

Vevay and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Aureliusmostly inland floodingLow

Lesliemostly inland floodingLow

Vevaymostly inland floodingLow

Inghammostly inland floodingLow

Masonmostly inland floodingVery low

Alaiedonmostly 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. Vevay 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 Vevay’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Vevay. 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.