Natural hazards · Crab Orchard

Crab Orchard, IL natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Crab Orchard comes from earthquakes, 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 Crab Orchard?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Crab Orchard to be higher than in 79% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes and inland flooding.

Earthquakes39%Inland flooding23%Strong wind13%Cold waves10%Tornadoes7%Heat waves5%Everything else4%

By hazard

What Crab Orchard faces

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

Earthquakes

39% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 88% of U.S. places

Inland flooding

23% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 58% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Strong wind

13% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Cold waves

10% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 20% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

7% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 50% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 11 years in the area

Heat waves

5% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 43% of U.S. places

Recorded about 10 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireLandslidesLightningDrought

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 Crab Orchard flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Williamson County.

Disasters that hit Crab Orchard

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Crab OrchardDeclared for Williamson County only

Williamson County has had 7 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and tornadoes.

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. Crab Orchard 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 Crab Orchard’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Crab Orchard. 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.