Natural hazards · Burritt

Burritt, IL natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Burritt?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Burritt to be higher than in 18% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding47%Tornadoes19%Cold waves16%Hail6%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Burritt 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

Below average · higher than 25% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

19% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 79% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 18 years in the area

Cold waves

16% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 29% of U.S. places

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Hail

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 85% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesIce 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 Burritt flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Winnebago County.

Disasters that hit Burritt

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into BurrittDeclared for Winnebago County only

Winnebago County has had 17 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often winter storms and floods.

Around Burritt

Burritt and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Burrittmostly inland floodingVery low

Winnebagomostly inland floodingVery low

Harrisonmostly inland floodingVery low

Pecatonicamostly inland floodingVery low

Westlake Villagemostly inland floodingVery low

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