Natural hazards · Pope

Pope, IL natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Pope?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Pope to be higher than in 70% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and earthquakes.

Inland flooding43%Earthquakes22%Cold waves8%Tornadoes8%Drought7%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Pope faces

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

Inland flooding

43% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 73% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Earthquakes

22% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 84% of U.S. places

Cold waves

8% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 17% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 77% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 7 years in the area

Drought

7% of expected damage

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightning

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 Pope flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Fayette County.

Disasters that hit Pope

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into PopeDeclared for Fayette County only

Fayette County has had 6 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often tornadoes and winter storms.

Around Pope

Pope and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

East Forkmostly inland floodingVery high

Popemostly inland floodingHigh

Seminarymostly inland floodingHigh

Kaskaskiamostly inland floodingHigh

Patokamostly earthquakesModerate

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