Natural hazards · Blount

Blount, IL natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Blount comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 2018.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Blount?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Blount to be higher than in 49% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding47%Cold waves26%Tornadoes10%Everything else18%

By hazard

What Blount 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

Above average · higher than 63% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Cold waves

26% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 57% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

10% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 86% of U.S. places

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

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 Blount flood?

Every paid claim on a federal flood insurance policy in Blount, from FEMA’s records.

1paid claims since 2018

$3Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20182026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Vermilion County.

Disasters that hit Blount

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into BlountDeclared for Vermilion County only

Vermilion County has had 10 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often tornadoes and severe storms.

Around Blount

Blount and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Pilotmostly inland floodingModerate

South Rossmostly inland floodingModerate

Catlinmostly inland floodingModerate

Blountmostly inland floodingModerate

Oakwoodmostly inland floodingModerate

Danvillemostly inland floodingModerate

Danvillemostly inland floodingLow

Newellmostly 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. Blount covers 2 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Blount’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Blount. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

FEMA’s expected losses across Blount total about $2.8M a year, counting buildings, people and crops.

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.