Natural hazards · Leef

Leef, IL natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Leef comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Leef?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Leef to be higher than in 69% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and earthquakes.

Inland flooding39%Earthquakes21%Tornadoes14%Cold waves10%Heat waves10%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Leef faces

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

Inland flooding

39% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 73% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Earthquakes

21% of expected damage

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

Tornadoes

14% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 9 years in the area

Cold waves

10% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Heat waves

10% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 15 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 Leef flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Leef 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 Leef

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into LeefDeclared for Madison County only

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

Around Leef

Leef and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Leefmostly inland floodingHigh

Alhambramostly inland floodingHigh

New Douglasmostly inland floodingHigh

Old Ripleymostly inland floodingHigh

Salinemostly earthquakesHigh

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