Natural hazards · Wakeshma

Wakeshma, MI natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Wakeshma 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 Wakeshma?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Wakeshma to be higher than in 28% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding50%Tornadoes20%Cold waves10%Hail10%Strong wind5%Everything else5%

By hazard

What Wakeshma 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 36% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Tornadoes

20% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 83% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 30 years in the area

Cold waves

10% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 46% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Hail

10% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Strong wind

5% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 88% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesIce 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 Wakeshma flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Kalamazoo County.

Disasters that hit Wakeshma

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into WakeshmaDeclared for Kalamazoo County only

Kalamazoo County has had 9 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often winter storms and floods.

Around Wakeshma

Wakeshma and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Leonidasmostly inland floodingModerate

Mendonmostly inland floodingModerate

Bradymostly inland floodingLow

Wakeshmamostly inland floodingLow

Athensmostly inland floodingLow

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