Natural hazards · New Lenox

New Lenox, IL natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in New Lenox comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 78 claims here since 1979.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is New Lenox?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in New Lenox to be higher than in 39% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding58%Cold waves19%Tornadoes18%Everything else5%

By hazard

What New Lenox faces

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

Inland flooding

58% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 62% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Cold waves

19% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 18% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

18% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 82% 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 New Lenox flood?

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

78paid claims since 1979

$775Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19792026

Biggest named events

Hurricane Ike: 6 claims, $85K
Mid-spring storms: 5 claims, $89K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. New 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: Will County.

Disasters that hit New Lenox

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into New LenoxDeclared for Will County only

Will County has had 17 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around New Lenox

New Lenox and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Jolietmostly inland floodingHigh

Frankfortmostly inland floodingModerate

Manhattanmostly inland floodingModerate

Frankfortmostly inland floodingModerate

New Lenoxmostly inland floodingLow

Homermostly 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. New Lenox covers 9 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to New Lenox’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of New Lenox. 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 New Lenox total about $23.8M 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.