Natural hazards · Wilber

Wilber, MI natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Wilber comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 2 claims here since 2020.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Wilber?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Wilber to be higher than in 7% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding60%Cold waves16%Tornadoes6%Strong wind6%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Wilber faces

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

Inland flooding

60% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 19% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 6 years in the area

Cold waves

16% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

6% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 44% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 78 years in the area

Strong wind

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 86% of U.S. places

Recorded about once 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 Wilber flood?

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

2paid claims since 2020

$232Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20202026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Iosco County.

Disasters that hit Wilber

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into WilberDeclared for Iosco County only

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

Around Wilber

Wilber and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Au Sablemostly inland floodingLow

Tawasmostly inland floodingLow

Oscodamostly inland floodingVery low

Baldwinmostly inland floodingVery low

Wilbermostly inland floodingVery low

Plainfieldmostly 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. Wilber covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Wilber’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Wilber. 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 Wilber total about $497K 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.