Natural hazards · Arispie

Arispie, IL natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Arispie comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Arispie?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Arispie to be higher than in 38% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding49%Tornadoes16%Drought13%Cold waves7%Everything else15%

By hazard

What Arispie faces

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

Inland flooding

49% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 46% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

16% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 91% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 6 years in the area

Drought

13% of expected damage

Recorded about 9 times a year in the area

Cold waves

7% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 17% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year 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 Arispie flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Bureau County.

Disasters that hit Arispie

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into ArispieDeclared for Bureau County only

1999

Il-Winter Storm 1/1/99

$3K to the Township of Arispie for repairs

Bureau County has had 15 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and winter storms.

Around Arispie

Arispie and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Arispiemostly inland floodingLow

Indiantownmostly inland floodingLow

Wheatlandmostly inland floodingLow

Leepertownmostly inland floodingLow

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