Natural hazards · Jarvis

Jarvis, IL natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Jarvis comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 3 claims here since 2008.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Jarvis?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Jarvis to be higher than in 57% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and earthquakes.

Inland flooding31%Earthquakes20%Tornadoes18%Heat waves13%Cold waves12%Everything else6%

By hazard

What Jarvis faces

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

Inland flooding

31% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 55% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Earthquakes

20% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 83% of U.S. places

Tornadoes

18% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 74 years in the area

Heat waves

13% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 86% of U.S. places

Recorded about 15 times a year in the area

Cold waves

12% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireLandslidesStrong 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 Jarvis flood?

Every paid claim on a federal flood insurance policy in Jarvis, from FEMA’s records.

3paid claims since 2008

$8Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20082026

Biggest named events

Hurricane Ike: 1 claim, $2K

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Madison County.

Disasters that hit Jarvis

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into JarvisDeclared for Madison County only

Madison County has had 14 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

Around Jarvis

Jarvis and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

St. Jacobmostly inland floodingHigh

Pin Oakmostly inland floodingHigh

O'Fallonmostly inland floodingModerate

Troymostly inland floodingModerate

Jarvismostly inland floodingModerate

Collinsvillemostly 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. Jarvis covers 2 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Jarvis’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Jarvis. 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 Jarvis total about $6.6M 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.