Natural hazards · Southern View

Southern View, IL natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Southern View comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 1997. 5 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Southern View?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Southern View to be higher than in 27% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and earthquakes.

Inland flooding27%Earthquakes23%Tornadoes20%Cold waves15%Heat waves8%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Southern View faces

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

Inland flooding

27% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 11% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

23% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 81% of U.S. places

Tornadoes

20% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 93% of U.S. places

Cold waves

15% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 56% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Heat waves

8% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 8 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 Southern View flood?

Every paid claim on a federal flood insurance policy in Southern View, from FEMA’s records.

1paid claims since 1997

$1Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19972026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Sangamon County.

Disasters that hit Southern View

5 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into Southern ViewDeclared for Sangamon County only

2023

Severe Storms and Flooding

$61K to the Village of Southern View for repairs

2011

Severe Winter Storm and Snowstorm

$3K to the Village of Southern View for repairs

2006

Severe Winter Storm

$14K to the Village of Southern View for repairs

2006

Tornadoes and Severe Storms

$7K to the Village of Southern View for repairs

1999

Il-Winter Storm 1/1/99

$2K to the Village of Southern View for repairs

Sangamon County has had 10 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and winter storms.

Around Southern View

Southern View and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Woodsidemostly inland floodingModerate

Capitalmostly inland floodingModerate

Southern Viewmostly 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. Southern View covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Southern View’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Village of Southern View. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

FEMA’s expected losses across Southern View total about $1.6M a year, counting buildings, people and crops.

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.