Natural hazards · Weesaw

Weesaw, MI natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Weesaw comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 3 claims here since 2018.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Weesaw?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Weesaw to be higher than in 44% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding65%Cold waves14%Tornadoes8%Strong wind6%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Weesaw faces

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

Inland flooding

65% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 69% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Cold waves

14% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 18% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

8% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 60% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 60 years in the area

Strong wind

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 57% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 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 Weesaw flood?

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

3paid claims since 2018

$30Kpaid to owners

1homes flooded more than once

20182026

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. Weesaw isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.

Insurance rates: Berrien County.

Disasters that hit Weesaw

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into WeesawDeclared for Berrien County only

Berrien County has had 10 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and winter storms.

Around Weesaw

Weesaw and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Buchananmostly inland floodingModerate

Weesawmostly inland floodingModerate

Barodamostly inland floodingLow

Galienmostly inland floodingLow

Chikamingmostly 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. Weesaw covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Weesaw’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Weesaw. 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 Weesaw total about $747K 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.