Natural hazards · Pilot Grove

Pilot Grove, IL natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Pilot Grove comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. 3 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Pilot Grove?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Pilot Grove to be higher than in 63% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding22%Cold waves21%Drought17%Heat waves15%Strong wind9%Tornadoes7%Everything else10%

By hazard

What Pilot Grove faces

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

Inland flooding

22% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 75% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Cold waves

21% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 56% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Drought

17% of expected damage

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Heat waves

15% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 93% of U.S. places

Recorded about 9 times a year in the area

Strong wind

9% of expected damage

Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

7% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 68% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 9 years in the area

Lower here

HurricanesIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

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 Pilot Grove flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Hancock County.

Disasters that hit Pilot Grove

3 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Pilot Grove itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the Township of Pilot Grove.

Brought FEMA money into Pilot GroveDeclared for Hancock County only

2023

Severe Storms and Flooding

$75K to the Township of Pilot Grove for repairs

2011

Severe Winter Storm and Snowstorm

$3K to the Township of Pilot Grove for repairs

1999

Il-Winter Storm 1/1/99

$2K to the Township of Pilot Grove for repairs

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

Around Pilot Grove

Pilot Grove and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Rock Creekmostly inland floodingVery high

Prairiemostly inland floodingVery high

Pilot Grovemostly inland floodingHigh

Fountain Greenmostly inland floodingHigh

Durhammostly inland floodingHigh

Carthagemostly 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. Pilot Grove 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 Pilot Grove’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Pilot Grove. 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.