Natural hazards · Burns

Burns, IL natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Burns?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Burns to be higher than in 50% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and drought.

Inland flooding33%Drought23%Strong wind22%Tornadoes9%Cold waves5%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Burns faces

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

Inland flooding

33% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 54% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Drought

23% of expected damage

Recorded about 9 times a year in the area

Strong wind

22% of expected damage

Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

9% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 81% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 5 years in the area

Cold waves

5% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 17% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

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 Burns flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Henry County.

Disasters that hit Burns

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into BurnsDeclared for Henry County only

Henry County has had 14 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and winter storms.

Around Burns

Burns and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Burnsmostly inland floodingModerate

Cambridgemostly inland floodingModerate

Cornwallmostly inland floodingModerate

Kewaneemostly 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. Burns covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Burns’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Burns. 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 Burns total about $2.2M 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.