Natural hazards · Mayfield

Mayfield, IL natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Mayfield comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 8 claims here since 1996.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Mayfield?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Mayfield to be higher than in 51% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding60%Cold waves20%Tornadoes12%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Mayfield faces

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

Inland flooding

60% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Cold waves

20% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 22% of U.S. places

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

12% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 74% of U.S. places

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong 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 Mayfield flood?

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

8paid claims since 1996

$117Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19962026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: DeKalb County.

Disasters that hit Mayfield

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into MayfieldDeclared for DeKalb County only

DeKalb County has had 10 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and winter storms.

Around Mayfield

Mayfield and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Mayfieldmostly inland floodingModerate

Sycamoremostly inland floodingLow

DeKalbmostly inland floodingLow

South Grovemostly inland floodingLow

Sycamoremostly 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. Mayfield covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Mayfield’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Mayfield. 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 Mayfield total about $2.3M 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.