Natural hazards · Lenox

Lenox, IL natural hazards

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

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Lenox to be higher than in 64% of U.S. communities, mostly from drought and inland flooding.

Drought30%Inland flooding20%Cold waves17%Heat waves9%Strong wind8%Hail6%Everything else10%

By hazard

What Lenox faces

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

Drought

30% of expected damage

Recorded about 9 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

20% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 64% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Cold waves

17% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 48% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Heat waves

9% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 85% of U.S. places

Recorded about 9 times a year in the area

Strong wind

8% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Hail

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 96% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesIce 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 Lenox flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Warren County.

Disasters that hit Lenox

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into LenoxDeclared for Warren County only

Warren County has had 7 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Lenox

Lenox and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Tompkinsmostly droughtHigh

Rosevillemostly droughtHigh

Lenoxmostly droughtHigh

Floydmostly droughtHigh

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