Natural hazards · Mount Pulaski

Mount Pulaski, IL natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Mount Pulaski comes from inland flooding, 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 Mount Pulaski?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Mount Pulaski to be higher than in 49% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding35%Drought14%Cold waves12%Tornadoes11%Strong wind10%Earthquakes9%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Mount Pulaski faces

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

Inland flooding

35% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 46% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Drought

14% of expected damage

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Cold waves

12% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 57% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

11% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 7 years in the area

Strong wind

10% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

9% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 78% of U.S. places

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesLightning

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 Mount Pulaski flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Logan County.

Disasters that hit Mount Pulaski

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Mount PulaskiDeclared for Logan County only

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

Around Mount Pulaski

Mount Pulaski and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Elkhartmostly inland floodingModerate

Chestermostly inland floodingModerate

Mount Pulaskimostly inland floodingModerate

Laennamostly inland floodingModerate

Lake Forkmostly inland floodingModerate

Lanesvillemostly inland floodingModerate

Buffalo Hartmostly 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. Mount Pulaski 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 Mount Pulaski’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Mount Pulaski. 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.