Natural hazards · Prestbury

Prestbury, IL natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Prestbury?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Prestbury to be higher than in 16% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding51%Cold waves22%Tornadoes21%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Prestbury faces

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

Inland flooding

51% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 32% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Cold waves

22% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 24% of U.S. places

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

21% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 80% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 93 years in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce 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 Prestbury flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Kane County.

Disasters that hit Prestbury

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into PrestburyDeclared for Kane County only

Kane County has had 14 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and winter storms.

Around Prestbury

Prestbury and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Sugar Grovemostly inland floodingModerate

Prestburymostly inland floodingVery low

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