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County hazard profile

LaSalle, IL

Illinois · pop. 109,558 · FIPS 17099

Relatively Moderate
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Cold Wave
dominant hazard
$61M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr LaSalle $61M

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 Moderate 86.1/100
national median ~50 higher than 86% of counties
Social vulnerabilityRelatively Low 38.93/100
national median ~50 lower than most counties (39th percentile)
Community resilienceVery High 90.65/100
national median ~50 among the highest nationally

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in LaSalle

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 679 flood-insurance claims totaling $12.4M in LaSalle since 1978. The costliest year was 2013 ($3.7M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1978: $62,981 paid 1979: $151,495 paid 1980: $585 paid 1981: $60,923 paid 1982: $563,141 paid 1983: $3,689 paid 1984: $2,108 paid 1985: $302,214 paid 1986: $60,961 paid 1988: $0 paid 1990: $54,916 paid 1991: $5,611 paid 1992: $1,369 paid 1993: $474,961 paid 1994: $34,465 paid 1995: $8,853 paid 1996: $1,592,241 paid 1997: $1,168,320 paid 1998: $46,152 paid 1999: $0 paid 2000: $0 paid 2001: $0 paid 2002: $136,872 paid 2003: $3,457 paid 2005: $37,475 paid 2006: $4,452 paid 2007: $356,218 paid 2008: $3,014,490 paid 2009: $49,351 paid 2010: $59,696 paid 2011: $38,792 paid 2012: $36,834 paid 2013: $3,688,722 paid 2014: $0 paid 2015: $43,003 paid 2017: $14,025 paid 2018: $48,056 paid 2019: $79,222 paid 2020: $156,761 paid 2021: $9,258 paid 2022: $0 paid 2013 · $3.7M 1978 2022
$12.4M
total paid
$18,220
average claim
$362K
largest single claim
55%
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 LaSalle, IL and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether LaSalle 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.