Natural hazards · Poplar Grove

Poplar Grove, IL natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Poplar Grove comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. 4 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Poplar Grove?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Poplar Grove to be higher than in 23% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding50%Tornadoes18%Cold waves13%Hail6%Everything else13%

By hazard

What Poplar Grove faces

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

Inland flooding

50% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 33% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

18% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 83% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 12 years in the area

Cold waves

13% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 30% of U.S. places

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Hail

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 86% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesIce 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 Poplar Grove flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Poplar 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: Boone County.

Disasters that hit Poplar Grove

4 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into Poplar GroveDeclared for Boone County only

2011

Severe Winter Storm and Snowstorm

$14K to the Village of Poplar Grove for repairs

2008

Record Snow and Near Record Snow

$5K to the Village of Poplar Grove for repairs

2006

Snow

$6K to the Village of Poplar Grove for repairs

2000

Illinois Winter Snow Storms

$3K to the Village of Poplar Grove for repairs

Boone County has had 9 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often winter storms and floods.

Around Poplar Grove

Poplar Grove and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Candlewick Lakemostly inland floodingLow

Timberlanemostly inland floodingLow

Caledoniamostly inland floodingLow

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