Natural hazards · Stanford

Stanford, IL natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Stanford?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Stanford to be higher than in 71% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and drought.

Inland flooding41%Drought19%Earthquakes19%Tornadoes5%Everything else16%

By hazard

What Stanford faces

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

Inland flooding

41% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 76% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Drought

19% of expected damage

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

19% of expected damage

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

Tornadoes

5% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 70% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 8 years in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat 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 Stanford flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Clay County.

Disasters that hit Stanford

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into StanfordDeclared for Clay County only

Clay County has had 3 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often winter storms and hurricanes.

Around Stanford

Stanford and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Keithmostly inland floodingHigh

Stanfordmostly inland floodingHigh

Clay Citymostly inland floodingHigh

Hoosiermostly inland floodingHigh

Pixleymostly inland floodingHigh

Hartermostly earthquakesModerate

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