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Natural hazards · Meacham

Meacham, IL natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Meacham comes from earthquakes, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community.

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

How exposed is Meacham?

57
Moderate
vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Meacham to be higher than in 57% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes and inland flooding.

Earthquakes39%Inland flooding31%Cold waves7%Strong wind7%Tornadoes7%Everything else10%
By hazard

What Meacham faces

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

Earthquakes

39% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 86% of U.S. places

Inland flooding

31% of expected damage
Below average · higher than 40% of U.S. places
Recorded about once a year in the area

Cold waves

7% of expected damage
Well below average · higher than 19% of U.S. places
Recorded about once a year in the area

Strong wind

7% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 97% of U.S. places
Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

7% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 59% of U.S. places
Recorded about once every 8 years in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesLightningDrought

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 Meacham flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured
of all homes
are insured
No community discount. Meacham isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.
Insurance rates: Marion County.
Disasters that hit Meacham

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into MeachamDeclared for Marion County only
Marion County has had 6 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and winter storms.
Around Meacham

Meacham and the towns around it

Kinmundy: Moderate, mostly earthquakesOskaloosa: High, mostly inland floodingOmega: Moderate, mostly earthquakesLa Clede: High, mostly inland floodingLarkinsburg: High, mostly inland floodingAlma: Moderate, mostly earthquakesFoster: Moderate, mostly earthquakesLone Grove: High, mostly inland floodingSonger: High, mostly inland floodingLouisville: High, mostly inland floodingBlair: High, mostly inland floodingIuka: High, mostly earthquakesWest: Moderate, mostly inland floodingMason: Moderate, mostly inland floodingStevenson: High, mostly earthquakesTonti: Moderate, mostly earthquakesMeacham: Moderate, mostly earthquakes MeachamKinmundyOskaloosaOmegaLa CledeLarkinsburgAlma
Very lowLowModerateHighVery high
La Cledemostly inland floodingHigh
Oskaloosamostly inland floodingHigh
Larkinsburgmostly inland floodingHigh
Meachammostly earthquakesModerate
Kinmundymostly earthquakesModerate
Omegamostly earthquakesModerate
Almamostly earthquakesModerate
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. Meacham 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 Meacham’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Meacham. 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.

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