Natural hazards · Akron

Akron, IL natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Akron comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Akron?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Akron to be higher than in 27% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding31%Cold waves20%Drought19%Tornadoes13%Everything else16%

By hazard

What Akron faces

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

Inland flooding

31% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 32% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Cold waves

20% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 61% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Drought

19% of expected damage

Recorded about 9 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

13% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 89% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 9 years in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

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 Akron flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Peoria County.

Disasters that hit Akron

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for Peoria County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Akron itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into AkronDeclared for Peoria County only

Peoria County has had 13 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and winter storms.

Around Akron

Akron and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Hallockmostly inland floodingHigh

Valleymostly inland floodingModerate

Radnormostly inland floodingLow

Akronmostly inland floodingLow

Princevillemostly inland floodingLow

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. Akron 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 Akron’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Akron. 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.