Natural hazards · Naplate

Naplate, IL natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Naplate?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Naplate to be higher than in 29% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding59%Cold waves17%Tornadoes9%Everything else15%

By hazard

What Naplate faces

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

Inland flooding

59% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 50% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Cold waves

17% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 19% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

9% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 65% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 9 years in the area

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 Naplate flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: La Salle County.

Disasters that hit Naplate

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into NaplateDeclared for La Salle County only

La Salle County has had 18 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and winter storms.

Around Naplate

Naplate and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Ottawamostly inland floodingHigh

Naplatemostly inland floodingLow

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