Natural hazards · Kickapoo

Kickapoo, IL natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Kickapoo comes from cold waves, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 33 claims here since 1979. 2 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Kickapoo?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Kickapoo to be higher than in 28% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves and inland flooding.

Cold waves34%Inland flooding34%Tornadoes16%Heat waves5%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Kickapoo faces

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

Cold waves

34% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

34% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 36% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

16% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 89% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 72 years in the area

Heat waves

5% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 23% of U.S. places

Recorded about 7 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong 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 Kickapoo flood?

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

33paid claims since 1979

$710Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19792026

Biggest named events

Mid-spring storms: 16 claims, $540K
Midwest Flooding: 5 claims, $70K
Hurricane Ike: 1 claim, $11K

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Peoria County.

Disasters that hit Kickapoo

2 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into KickapooDeclared for Peoria County only

2013

Severe Storms, Straight-Line Winds, and Flooding

$47K to the Township of Kickapoo for repairs

2011

Severe Winter Storm and Snowstorm

$8K to the Township of Kickapoo for repairs

Peoria County has had 13 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and winter storms.

Around Kickapoo

Kickapoo and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Richwoodsmostly inland floodingLow

Radnormostly inland floodingLow

Medinamostly inland floodingLow

Rosefieldmostly inland floodingLow

Peoria Citymostly inland floodingLow

Peoriamostly inland floodingLow

Kickapoomostly cold wavesLow

Limestonemostly 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. Kickapoo covers 3 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Kickapoo’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Kickapoo. 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 Kickapoo total about $6.5M 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.