Natural hazards · Browns

Browns, IL natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Browns?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Browns to be higher than in 77% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and drought.

Inland flooding34%Drought25%Earthquakes23%Strong wind5%Tornadoes5%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Browns faces

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

Inland flooding

34% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 78% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Drought

25% of expected damage

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

23% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 87% of U.S. places

Strong wind

5% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

5% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 14 years in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesLightning

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 Browns flood?

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

Disasters that hit Browns

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into BrownsDeclared for Edwards County only

Edwards County has had 5 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often tornadoes and hurricanes.

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