Property Atlas

County hazard profile

Peoria, IL

Illinois · pop. 181,691 · FIPS 17143

Relatively Moderate
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Cold Wave
dominant hazard
$85M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

lower than most counties (26th percentile)

national median $15M/yr Peoria $85M

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 90.68/100
national median ~50 among the highest nationally
Social vulnerabilityRelatively Moderate 49.97/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (50th percentile)
Community resilienceVery High 93.58/100
national median ~50 among the highest nationally

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Peoria

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 2,545 flood-insurance claims totaling $23.6M in Peoria since 1978. The costliest year was 2013 ($6.5M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1978: $198,021 paid 1979: $4,323,649 paid 1980: $117,741 paid 1981: $110,329 paid 1982: $2,683,872 paid 1983: $401,994 paid 1984: $7,787 paid 1985: $1,769,150 paid 1986: $543,402 paid 1988: $0 paid 1989: $0 paid 1990: $55,343 paid 1991: $8,547 paid 1992: $0 paid 1993: $465,248 paid 1994: $22,571 paid 1995: $309,858 paid 1996: $21,830 paid 1997: $899,498 paid 1998: $97,178 paid 1999: $69,394 paid 2001: $1,153 paid 2002: $123,109 paid 2003: $0 paid 2004: $8,076 paid 2005: $38,510 paid 2006: $0 paid 2007: $30,838 paid 2008: $1,441,069 paid 2009: $1,960,211 paid 2010: $30,229 paid 2011: $17,805 paid 2013: $6,465,545 paid 2014: $1,850 paid 2015: $283,868 paid 2016: $19,551 paid 2017: $0 paid 2018: $27,391 paid 2019: $810,733 paid 2020: $200,269 paid 2022: $34,551 paid 2023: $0 paid 2024: $0 paid 2013 · $6.5M 1978 2024
$23.6M
total paid
$9,273
average claim
$208K
largest single claim
84%
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 Peoria, IL and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Peoria 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.