Blissville’s biggest natural hazard is earthquakes
Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Blissville comes from earthquakes, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community.
What stands out about Blissville’s weather risks
Read from FEMA’s records below. The page puts what stands out first.
Blissville and its neighbors
Blissville has the lowest rating of the 5 towns around it. Tap a town to see its hazards.
Rating = expected yearly storm and flood damage as a share of what’s there, vs. U.S. communities. Flood claims = paid federal flood insurance claims on record.
Does Blissville flood? No paid flood claims on record
FEMA’s records show no paid flood insurance claims in Blissville. That’s not a promise: most homes don’t carry flood insurance, so small floods go unrecorded.
Blissville isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.
Insurance rates: Jefferson County.How exposed is Blissville?
FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings here to be higher than in 64% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes and inland flooding.
Rated higher than 1,906 of the 2,886 Illinois towns we cover.
Blissville covers 1 census tract, combined by population.
What Blissville faces
Each hazard’s share of the damage FEMA expects here, and how it compares with the rest of the country.
Earthquakes
Inland flooding
Tornadoes
Strong wind
Federal disasters declared here
None of the disasters declared for Jefferson County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Blissville itself in FEMA’s records.
Jefferson County has had 3 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and hurricanes.
Get ready for what Blissville actually faces
A short kit for its top hazards, what to check before you buy, and where neighbors get alerts.
- Drop, cover and hold on.
- Strap tall furniture and the water heater to the wall.
- Know how to shut off the gas.
- Turn around at flooded roads: a foot of moving water can carry off a car.
- Flood insurance usually takes 30 days to start, so buy it before the forecast.
- Keep papers and medicines up high, in a grab-and-go bag.
- Pick your spot now: the lowest floor, an inside room, no windows.
- A watch means be ready; a warning means take cover now.
- Keep shoes and a flashlight by the bed.
- Look up the address on FEMA’s flood map.
- Ask the seller or landlord whether it has ever flooded, and what flood insurance costs there.
- Get a flood insurance quote early: policies usually start 30 days after you buy.
Know where neighbors sign up for alerts? Add it to the Handbook so everyone has it.
What these numbers can and can’t tell you
- An average, not a forecast. FEMA’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 there, so a big city isn’t rated riskier just for having more buildings.
- Money that reached town. Flood claims are matched to Blissville’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Blissville.
- It follows property value. FEMA’s model weighs damage to buildings, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels. Across Blissville, expected losses total about $5.5M a year, counting buildings, people and crops.
Storm stories
Memories, warnings and help from neighbors in Blissville.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
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. Preparedness tips: Ready.gov. An average of past damage, not a forecast.