Natural hazards · Crystal Lawns

Crystal Lawns, IL natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Crystal Lawns 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 Crystal Lawns?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Crystal Lawns to be higher than in 72% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding63%Cold waves18%Tornadoes14%Everything else4%

By hazard

What Crystal Lawns faces

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

Inland flooding

63% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Cold waves

18% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 18% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

14% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 82% of U.S. places

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingWildfireAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Crystal Lawns flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Will County.

Disasters that hit Crystal Lawns

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Crystal LawnsDeclared for Will County only

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

Around Crystal Lawns

Crystal Lawns and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Crystal Lawnsmostly inland floodingHigh

Jolietmostly inland floodingModerate

Crest Hillmostly 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. Crystal Lawns 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 Crystal Lawns’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Crystal Lawns. 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.