Natural hazards · Scales Mound

Scales Mound, IL natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Scales Mound comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. 2 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Scales Mound?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Scales Mound to be higher than in 36% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding55%Tornadoes15%Cold waves12%Hail8%Everything else10%

By hazard

What Scales Mound faces

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

Inland flooding

55% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 46% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

15% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 88% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 16 years in the area

Cold waves

12% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 7 times a year in the area

Hail

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 89% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 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 Scales Mound flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Jo Daviess County.

Disasters that hit Scales Mound

2 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into Scales MoundDeclared for Jo Daviess County only

2010

Severe Storms and Flooding

10 households applied for aid $38K aid approved $9K to the Village of Scales Mound for repairs

1999

Severe Storms and Flash Flooding

$1K to the Village of Scales Mound for repairs

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

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. Scales Mound 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 Scales Mound’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Village of Scales Mound. 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.