Natural hazards · Sorento

Sorento, IL natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Sorento comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Sorento?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Sorento to be higher than in 66% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and earthquakes.

Inland flooding37%Earthquakes25%Tornadoes13%Cold waves8%Heat waves6%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Sorento faces

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

Inland flooding

37% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 67% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Earthquakes

25% of expected damage

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

Tornadoes

13% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 79% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 8 years in the area

Cold waves

8% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 17% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Heat waves

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 77% of U.S. places

Recorded about 10 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireLandslidesStrong 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 Sorento flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Bond County.

Disasters that hit Sorento

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into SorentoDeclared for Bond County only

2006

Severe Winter Storm

$10K to the Village of Sorento for repairs

Bond County has had 5 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often tornadoes 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. Sorento 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 Sorento’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Village of Sorento. 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.