Natural hazards · Kewanee

Kewanee, IL natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Kewanee comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 7 claims here since 1979. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Kewanee?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Kewanee to be higher than in 24% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and strong winds.

Inland flooding24%Strong wind21%Tornadoes21%Cold waves12%Heat waves8%Everything else14%

By hazard

What Kewanee faces

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

Inland flooding

24% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 11% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Strong wind

21% of expected damage

Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

21% of expected damage

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

Cold waves

12% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 17% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Heat waves

8% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 25% of U.S. places

Recorded about 7 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightningDrought

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 Kewanee flood?

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

7paid claims since 1979

$11Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19792026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Henry County.

Disasters that hit Kewanee

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into KewaneeDeclared for Henry County only

1999

Il-Winter Storm 1/1/99

$4K to the Township of Kewanee for repairs

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

Around Kewanee

Kewanee and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Burnsmostly inland floodingModerate

Annawanmostly inland floodingModerate

Elmiramostly inland floodingModerate

Wethersfieldmostly inland floodingLow

Kewaneemostly inland floodingLow

Neponsetmostly inland floodingVery low

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. Kewanee covers 3 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Kewanee’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Kewanee. 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 Kewanee total about $3.0M 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.