Natural hazards · Danville

Danville, IA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Danville comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. 3 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

FEMA National Risk Index, December 2025 · OpenFEMA claims, aid & declarations

Expected damage

How exposed is Danville?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Danville to be higher than in 56% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding50%Tornadoes11%Drought9%Hail9%Strong wind7%Heat waves7%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Danville faces

Each hazard’s share of the damage FEMA expects here, and how that compares with the rest of the country.

Inland flooding

50% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 65% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

11% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 86% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 15 years in the area

Drought

9% of expected damage

Recorded about 9 times a year in the area

Hail

9% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 94% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Strong wind

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 90% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Heat waves

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 95% of U.S. places

Recorded about 9 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic activity

Flood risk changes street by street. Check a specific address on FEMA’s flood map, and ask about flood insurance before you buy.

Flood insurance claims

Does Danville flood?

FEMA's records show no paid flood insurance claims in Danville.

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Danville isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.

Insurance rates: Des Moines County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

1storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Danville

3 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Danville itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the City of Danville.

Brought FEMA money into DanvilleDeclared for Des Moines County only

2010

Severe Storms and Flooding

$7K to the City of Danville for repairs

2008

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

2 households applied for aid $4K aid approved

2007

Severe Winter Storms

$19K to the City of Danville for repairs

Des Moines County has had 24 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

About these numbers

How to read this page

An average, not a forecastFEMA’s National Risk Index estimates the damage 18 kinds of natural hazards cause in a typical year, from decades of records and models. A quiet decade can follow a bad year.

Compared by rate“Higher than N%” compares yearly damage as a share of what’s here, so a big city isn’t rated riskier just for having more buildings. Danville is smaller than a census tract, so it shares the figures of the tract around its center.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Danville’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Danville. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

Sources: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025); OpenFEMA: NFIP redacted claims, multiple-loss properties, community status book and residential penetration rates, housing assistance (owners and renters), public assistance funded projects, hazard mitigation properties and disaster declarations. Census tracts: U.S. Census Bureau.