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Natural hazards · Batchtown

Batchtown, IL natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Batchtown comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. 4 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

How exposed is Batchtown?

84
Very high
vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Batchtown to be higher than in 84% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and heat waves.

Inland flooding47%Heat waves21%Cold waves9%Tornadoes8%Strong wind5%Everything else11%
By hazard

What Batchtown faces

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

Inland flooding

47% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 95% of U.S. places
Recorded about once a year in the area

Heat waves

21% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 68% of U.S. places
Recorded about 11 times a year in the area

Cold waves

9% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 53% of U.S. places
Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

8% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 73% of U.S. places
Recorded about once every 9 years in the area

Strong wind

5% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 90% of U.S. places
Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightningDrought

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 Batchtown flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured
of all homes
are insured
No community discount. Batchtown isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.
Insurance rates: Calhoun County.
Disasters that hit Batchtown

4 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into BatchtownDeclared for Calhoun County only
2019

Severe Storms and Flooding

$12K to the Village of Batchtown for repairs
2013

Severe Storms, Straight-Line Winds, and Flooding

2 households applied for aid $2K aid approved
2008

Severe Storms and Flooding

3 households applied for aid $8K aid approved
1999

Il-Winter Storm 1/1/99

$2K to the Village of Batchtown for repairs
Calhoun County has had 23 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. Batchtown 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 Batchtown’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Village of Batchtown. 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.

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