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County hazard profile

Lee, IL

Illinois · pop. 34,125 · FIPS 17103

Relatively Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Strong Wind
dominant hazard
$21M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Lee $21M

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 54.39/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (54th percentile)
Social vulnerabilityRelatively Low 23.16/100
national median ~50 among the lowest nationally
Community resilienceVery High 82.73/100
national median ~50 higher than 83% of counties

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Lee

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 142 flood-insurance claims totaling $730K in Lee since 1978. The costliest year was 1994 ($234K paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1978: $8,542 paid 1979: $58,866 paid 1980: $0 paid 1981: $1,146 paid 1982: $2,517 paid 1983: $77 paid 1984: $65,123 paid 1985: $71,604 paid 1986: $908 paid 1988: $7,413 paid 1990: $1,370 paid 1992: $0 paid 1993: $86,859 paid 1994: $234,226 paid 1996: $25,189 paid 1999: $3,915 paid 2000: $4,904 paid 2001: $0 paid 2002: $10,057 paid 2007: $60,018 paid 2008: $28,272 paid 2010: $0 paid 2011: $20,379 paid 2013: $18,843 paid 2014: $2,067 paid 2015: $18,155 paid 2016: $0 paid 2019: $0 paid 1994 · $234K 1978 2019
$730K
total paid
$5,144
average claim
$46K
largest single claim
42%
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 Lee, IL and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Lee 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.