Natural hazards · Orangeville

Orangeville, IL natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Orangeville comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 1996.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Orangeville?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Orangeville to be higher than in 32% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding54%Tornadoes14%Hail9%Cold waves9%Strong wind5%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Orangeville faces

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

Inland flooding

54% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 40% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

14% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 82% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 13 years in the area

Hail

9% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 90% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Cold waves

9% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 26% of U.S. places

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Strong wind

5% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 91% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightningDrought

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 Orangeville flood?

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

1paid claims since 1996

$42Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19962026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Stephenson County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

8flood-prone properties bought out and cleared

Disasters that hit Orangeville

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into OrangevilleDeclared for Stephenson County only

Stephenson County has had 12 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and winter storms.

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