Natural hazards · Green Garden

Green Garden, IL natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Green Garden comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Green Garden?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Green Garden to be higher than in 65% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding69%Cold waves14%Tornadoes13%Everything else4%

By hazard

What Green Garden faces

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

Inland flooding

69% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 84% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Cold waves

14% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

13% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 37 years in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce 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 Green Garden flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Green Garden 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 Green Garden

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Green Garden itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the Township of Green Garden.

Brought FEMA money into Green GardenDeclared for Will County only

1999

Il-Winter Storm 1/1/99

$7K to the Township of Green Garden for repairs

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

Around Green Garden

Green Garden and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Peotonemostly inland floodingHigh

Green Gardenmostly inland floodingHigh

Frankfortmostly inland floodingModerate

Manhattanmostly inland floodingModerate

Moneemostly inland floodingModerate

Frankfortmostly 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. Green Garden covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Green Garden’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Green Garden. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

FEMA’s expected losses across Green Garden total about $2.9M a year, counting buildings, people and crops.

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.