Property Atlas

County hazard profile

Bureau, IL

Illinois · pop. 33,213 · FIPS 17011

Relatively Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Drought
dominant hazard
$22M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

Expected annual loss · all 3,232 U.S. counties

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Bureau $22M

A real dollar distribution: most counties sit far below a handful of high-exposure ones. A FEMA model of annual loss, not a record of disasters.

FEMA national percentile scores

FEMA/CDC score each county 0–100 against all others — the score is the national rank (RATING). Higher risk and vulnerability are worse; higher resilience is better.

FEMA risk indexRelatively Low 62.28/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (62nd percentile)
Social vulnerabilityRelatively Moderate 41.7/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (42nd percentile)
Community resilienceVery High 80.09/100
national median ~50 higher than 80% of counties

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Bureau

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 73 flood-insurance claims totaling $244K in Bureau since 1978. The costliest year was 2013 ($91K paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1978: $1,710 paid 1979: $17,372 paid 1981: $635 paid 1982: $21,505 paid 1983: $2,284 paid 1984: $8,036 paid 1985: $1,125 paid 1987: $16,100 paid 1988: $1,923 paid 1990: $14,600 paid 1997: $2,131 paid 2007: $1,415 paid 2008: $21,453 paid 2009: $6,317 paid 2010: $3,305 paid 2011: $11,555 paid 2013: $90,905 paid 2015: $1,000 paid 2019: $14,199 paid 2020: $6,360 paid 2013 · $91K 1978 2020
$244K
total paid
$3,342
average claim
$22K
largest single claim
44%
in high-risk flood zones (A/V)

RECORDED — these are actual paid NFIP claims (a redacted census from OpenFEMA), not a model. They are the realized counterpart to the FEMA risk score above: one is what happened and got paid, the other is what a model predicts.

Scope: these are flood-insurance claims, so they undercount flooding where owners were uninsured — read this as "what NFIP paid here," not "every flood." County-level totals, not a per-property or per-address verdict. Verify a specific address and buy coverage at FloodSmart.gov; the underlying data is OpenFEMA NFIP Redacted Claims.

What these figures mean

  • RATING — the FEMA risk score, expected loss, social vulnerability, and resilience are FEMA/CDC models, not records of disasters that happened. The 0–100 scores are already national percentiles.
  • MEASURED — population is a recorded census figure.
  • COMPUTED — the county's rank within the dollar-loss distribution is our placement over the 3,232 counties.
  • CONTEXT — the note below is framing, not a measurement.

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What this is — and is not

This is FEMA/CDC modeled hazard exposure for Bureau, IL and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Bureau is a good or bad place to live — hazard exposure is not place quality, and a county can't opt out of its geography. It is not a per-property or per-address risk assessment, not a prediction of any specific disaster, and not insurance advice. For site-specific risk use a per-property assessment; for the underlying model see FEMA National Risk Index.