Natural hazards · Rest Haven

Rest Haven, IL natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Rest Haven?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Rest Haven to be higher than in 82% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding68%Cold waves16%Tornadoes12%Everything else4%

By hazard

What Rest Haven faces

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

Inland flooding

68% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 94% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Cold waves

16% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

12% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 40 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 Rest Haven flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Rest Haven 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 Rest Haven

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Rest HavenDeclared for Will County only

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

Around Rest Haven

Rest Haven and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Rest Havenmostly inland floodingVery high

Custermostly inland floodingVery high

Wesleymostly inland floodingVery high

Custer Parkmostly inland floodingVery high

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