Photo: Public domain · Public domainStorms, floods and disasters in Beaverdam
Beaverdam isn’t graded for hazard risk: Beaverdam has 404 residents; we grade towns of 1,000 or more.
What Beaverdam faces
Each hazard’s share of the building damage FEMA expects here, and how its rate compares with the rest of the country.
River and rain flooding
Tornadoes
Shares are of FEMA’s expected building damage, the measure the grade uses; ranks compare each hazard’s building-damage rate with all 85,154 U.S. census tracts. In FEMA’s terms, river and rain flooding is FEMA’s “Inland Flooding” (rivers and streams overflowing their banks, or rain overwhelming drainage). FEMA defines coastal flooding as high or rising tides and storm surge, so surge damage is counted there. Drought isn’t listed: FEMA counts its losses in crops only.
Does Beaverdam flood? No paid flood claims on record
FEMA’s records show no paid flood insurance claims in Beaverdam. That’s not a promise: most homes don’t carry flood insurance, so small floods go unrecorded.
Beaverdam isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.
Insurance rates: Allen County.1 federal disaster brought FEMA money to Beaverdam
Disasters that paid out in Beaverdam itself (aid to households or repair grants to the Village of Beaverdam), newest first, with that year’s flood claims.
- 2004Severe Winter Storms, Flooding, and Mudslides$5K to the Village of Beaverdam for repairs
Allen County has had 6 natural disasters declared by the President since 1953, most often severe storms, then winter storms. Not counted: the 2005 Hurricane Katrina evacuee emergency, which covered counties that took in evacuees.
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A short kit for the hazards that drive the building damage here, what to check before you buy, and where neighbors get alerts.
- Turn around at flooded roads: a foot of moving water can carry off a car.
- Flood insurance usually takes 30 days to start, so buy it before the forecast.
- Keep papers and medicines up high, in a grab-and-go bag.
- Pick your spot now: the lowest floor, an inside room, no windows.
- A watch means be ready; a warning means take cover now.
- Keep shoes and a flashlight by the bed.
- Look up the address on FEMA’s flood map.
- Ask the seller or landlord whether it has ever flooded, and what flood insurance costs there.
- Get a flood insurance quote early: policies usually start 30 days after you buy.
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Questions about natural hazards in Beaverdam
Is Beaverdam in a flood zone?
Flood zones are drawn street by street, so the answer depends on the address: look it up on FEMA’s flood map. In Allen County, 17% of homes in mapped flood zones carry federal flood insurance, and 0.4% of all homes do.
How much is flood insurance in Beaverdam?
FEMA’s Community Rating System list shows no discount for Beaverdam’s flood program. Premiums depend on the building; policies usually start 30 days after you buy, so get a quote early.
What was the biggest storm in Beaverdam?
By FEMA money that reached Beaverdam, Severe Winter Storms, Flooding, and Mudslides (2004): $5K to the Village of Beaverdam for repairs.
Storm stories
Memories, warnings and help from neighbors in Beaverdam.
Sources: FEMA National Risk Index v1.20 (December 2025), census-tract table, combined by where Beaverdam’s residents lived in the 2020 census; 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. Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. Preparedness tips: Ready.gov. FEMA’s model is an average of expected damage, not a forecast. How hazard risk is graded.