Natural hazards · Ellis Grove

Ellis Grove, IL natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Ellis Grove 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 Ellis Grove?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Ellis Grove to be higher than in 67% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes and inland flooding.

Earthquakes53%Inland flooding19%Tornadoes8%Strong wind7%Everything else14%

By hazard

What Ellis Grove faces

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

Earthquakes

53% of expected damage

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

Inland flooding

19% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 34% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 89% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 8 years in the area

Strong wind

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 98% of U.S. places

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesLightningDrought

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 Ellis Grove flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Randolph County.

Disasters that hit Ellis Grove

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Ellis GroveDeclared for Randolph County only

Randolph County has had 15 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

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