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County hazard profile

Iroquois, IL

Illinois · pop. 27,072 · FIPS 17075

Relatively Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Cold Wave
dominant hazard
$34M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Iroquois $34M

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 73.95/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (74th percentile)
Social vulnerabilityRelatively Low 33.97/100
national median ~50 lower than most counties (34th percentile)
Community resilienceRelatively High 65.46/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (65th percentile)

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Iroquois

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 840 flood-insurance claims totaling $16.9M in Iroquois since 1979. The costliest year was 2008 ($7.2M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1979: $55,231 paid 1980: $5,956 paid 1981: $537 paid 1982: $52,529 paid 1985: $12,173 paid 1990: $8,851 paid 1991: $1,628 paid 1993: $191,930 paid 1994: $135,767 paid 1996: $21,035 paid 1998: $263 paid 2000: $765 paid 2001: $0 paid 2003: $626 paid 2004: $2,399 paid 2005: $200,843 paid 2007: $0 paid 2008: $7,199,119 paid 2009: $89,057 paid 2010: $5,711 paid 2015: $2,229,996 paid 2016: $64,322 paid 2018: $6,579,588 paid 2021: $26,441 paid 2008 · $7.2M 1979 2021
$16.9M
total paid
$20,101
average claim
$500K
largest single claim
94%
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 Iroquois, IL and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Iroquois 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.