Natural hazards · Barry

Barry, IL natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Barry?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Barry to be higher than in 87% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding45%Cold waves13%Drought13%Heat waves12%Strong wind6%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Barry faces

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

Inland flooding

45% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 96% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Cold waves

13% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 48% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Drought

13% of expected damage

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Heat waves

12% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 80% of U.S. places

Recorded about 9 times a year in the area

Strong wind

6% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

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 Barry flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Pike County.

Disasters that hit Barry

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into BarryDeclared for Pike County only

Pike County has had 23 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

Around Barry

Barry and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Pleasant Valemostly inland floodingVery high

Barrymostly inland floodingVery high

Kinderhookmostly inland floodingVery high

Hadleymostly inland floodingModerate

Beverlymostly inland floodingModerate

Richfieldmostly inland floodingModerate

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