Natural hazards · Spaulding

Spaulding, IL natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Spaulding 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 Spaulding?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Spaulding to be higher than in 41% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding40%Tornadoes19%Cold waves16%Heat waves9%Earthquakes6%Everything else10%

By hazard

What Spaulding faces

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

Inland flooding

40% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 48% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

19% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 31 years in the area

Cold waves

16% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Heat waves

9% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 8 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 73% of U.S. places

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 Spaulding flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Spaulding 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 Spaulding

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into SpauldingDeclared for Sangamon County only

Sangamon County has had 10 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms 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. Spaulding 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 Spaulding’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Village of Spaulding. 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.