Natural hazards · Fairmount

Fairmount, IL natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Fairmount 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 Fairmount?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Fairmount to be higher than in 55% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and drought.

Inland flooding22%Drought19%Cold waves18%Heat waves15%Strong wind10%Tornadoes7%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Fairmount faces

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

Inland flooding

22% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 72% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Drought

19% of expected damage

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Cold waves

18% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 48% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Heat waves

15% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 80% of U.S. places

Recorded about 9 times a year in the area

Strong wind

10% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 92% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

7% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 61% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 6 years in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

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 Fairmount flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Pike County.

Disasters that hit Fairmount

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into FairmountDeclared for Pike County only

Pike County has had 23 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

Around Fairmount

Fairmount and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Buckhornmostly inland floodingModerate

Fairmountmostly inland floodingModerate

Perrymostly inland floodingModerate

New Salemmostly inland floodingModerate

Beverlymostly inland floodingModerate

McKeemostly inland floodingModerate

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