Natural hazards · Preston Heights

Preston Heights, IL natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Preston Heights?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Preston Heights to be higher than in 31% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding64%Tornadoes17%Cold waves14%Everything else6%

By hazard

What Preston Heights faces

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

Inland flooding

64% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 53% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

17% of expected damage

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

Cold waves

14% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 18% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year 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 Preston Heights flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Will County.

Disasters that hit Preston Heights

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Preston HeightsDeclared for Will County only

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

Around Preston Heights

Preston Heights and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Jolietmostly inland floodingModerate

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