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County hazard profile

DuPage, IL

Illinois · pop. 932,368 · FIPS 17043

Relatively High
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Cold Wave
dominant hazard
$366M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the highest nationally

national median $15M/yr DuPage $366M

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 High 97.65/100
national median ~50 among the highest nationally
Social vulnerabilityVery Low 15.81/100
national median ~50 among the lowest nationally
Community resilienceRelatively High 71.76/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (72nd percentile)

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in DuPage

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 3,579 flood-insurance claims totaling $55.1M in DuPage since 1978. The costliest year was 2013 ($19.7M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1978: $214,145 paid 1979: $916,582 paid 1980: $63,073 paid 1981: $37,623 paid 1982: $1,059,023 paid 1983: $692,451 paid 1984: $11,520 paid 1985: $148,719 paid 1986: $20,519 paid 1987: $6,526,170 paid 1988: $0 paid 1989: $151,701 paid 1990: $142,059 paid 1991: $654 paid 1992: $0 paid 1993: $61,376 paid 1994: $19,852 paid 1995: $967 paid 1996: $1,104,873 paid 1997: $302,765 paid 1998: $51,819 paid 1999: $69,538 paid 2000: $4,648 paid 2001: $697,962 paid 2002: $19,010 paid 2003: $7,555 paid 2004: $0 paid 2005: $0 paid 2006: $331,769 paid 2007: $127,450 paid 2008: $11,048,132 paid 2009: $113,102 paid 2010: $6,220,815 paid 2011: $1,186,432 paid 2012: $0 paid 2013: $19,741,375 paid 2014: $461,705 paid 2015: $389,401 paid 2016: $68,750 paid 2017: $766,457 paid 2018: $365,677 paid 2019: $44,625 paid 2020: $1,475,832 paid 2021: $243 paid 2022: $20,926 paid 2023: $24,587 paid 2024: $154,955 paid 2025: $205,475 paid 2026: $32,862 paid 2013 · $19.7M 1978 2026
$55.1M
total paid
$15,397
average claim
$1.0M
largest single claim
63%
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 DuPage, IL and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether DuPage 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.