Natural hazards · Newell

Newell, IL natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Newell comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 10 claims here since 1994.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Newell?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Newell to be higher than in 36% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding41%Cold waves26%Tornadoes11%Earthquakes7%Everything else16%

By hazard

What Newell faces

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

Inland flooding

41% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 43% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Cold waves

26% 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 86% of U.S. places

Earthquakes

7% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 72% of U.S. places

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong 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 Newell flood?

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

10paid claims since 1994

$73Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19942026

Biggest named events

Mid-spring storms: 1 claim, $692

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Vermilion County.

Disasters that hit Newell

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into NewellDeclared for Vermilion County only

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

Around Newell

Newell and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

South Rossmostly inland floodingModerate

Highlandmostly inland floodingModerate

Blountmostly inland floodingModerate

Danvillemostly inland floodingModerate

Danvillemostly inland floodingLow

Kentmostly inland floodingLow

Moundmostly inland floodingLow

Steubenmostly inland floodingLow

Newellmostly 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. Newell covers 4 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Newell’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Newell. 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 Newell total about $4.8M 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.