Natural hazards · Ricks

Ricks, IL natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Ricks?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Ricks to be higher than in 45% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and earthquakes.

Inland flooding28%Earthquakes21%Cold waves19%Drought15%Tornadoes6%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Ricks faces

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

Inland flooding

28% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 36% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

21% of expected damage

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

Cold waves

19% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 55% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Drought

15% of expected damage

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

6% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 5 years 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 Ricks flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Christian County.

Disasters that hit Ricks

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into RicksDeclared for Christian County only

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

Around Ricks

Ricks and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Rountreemostly inland floodingHigh

Ricksmostly inland floodingModerate

Bear Creekmostly inland floodingModerate

Greenwoodmostly inland floodingModerate

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