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County hazard profile

Will, IL

Illinois · pop. 696,135 · FIPS 17197

Relatively High
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Cold Wave
dominant hazard
$348M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the highest nationally

national median $15M/yr Will $348M

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 97.26/100
national median ~50 among the highest nationally
Social vulnerabilityVery Low 13.39/100
national median ~50 among the lowest nationally
Community resilienceVery High 92.37/100
national median ~50 among the highest nationally

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Will

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 2,288 flood-insurance claims totaling $21.0M in Will since 1978. The costliest year was 1996 ($6.9M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1978: $39,771 paid 1979: $322,055 paid 1980: $46,658 paid 1981: $1,416,297 paid 1982: $992,515 paid 1983: $401,059 paid 1984: $436,987 paid 1985: $957,783 paid 1986: $9,189 paid 1987: $745 paid 1989: $26,181 paid 1990: $238,769 paid 1991: $3,578 paid 1992: $1,068 paid 1993: $15,742 paid 1994: $25,330 paid 1996: $6,911,181 paid 1997: $286,497 paid 1998: $15,052 paid 1999: $143,986 paid 2000: $206 paid 2001: $119,654 paid 2002: $50,924 paid 2003: $101,393 paid 2004: $82,696 paid 2005: $8,470 paid 2006: $46,236 paid 2007: $560,950 paid 2008: $2,322,698 paid 2009: $68,771 paid 2010: $69,644 paid 2011: $253,728 paid 2012: $10,018 paid 2013: $2,954,949 paid 2014: $49,046 paid 2015: $111,914 paid 2016: $0 paid 2017: $258,612 paid 2018: $160,800 paid 2019: $616,543 paid 2020: $412,348 paid 2021: $26,448 paid 2022: $7,722 paid 2023: $55,805 paid 2024: $343,067 paid 2025: $25,544 paid 1996 · $6.9M 1978 2025
$21.0M
total paid
$9,182
average claim
$300K
largest single claim
66%
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 Will, IL and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Will 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.