Natural hazards · Hire

Hire, IL natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Hire comes from drought, 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 Hire?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

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

Drought25%Cold waves22%Inland flooding18%Strong wind13%Heat waves9%Tornadoes7%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Hire faces

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

Drought

25% of expected damage

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Cold waves

22% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 47% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

18% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 67% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Strong wind

13% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 95% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Heat waves

9% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 9 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

7% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 9 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 Hire flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: McDonough County.

Disasters that hit Hire

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into HireDeclared for McDonough County only

McDonough County has had 9 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often winter storms and severe storms.

Around Hire

Hire and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Fountain Greenmostly inland floodingHigh

Hiremostly droughtModerate

Blandinsvillemostly droughtModerate

Emmetmostly inland floodingModerate

Tennesseemostly cold wavesLow

Colchestermostly cold wavesLow

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