Natural hazards · Stites

Stites, IL natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Stites comes from earthquakes, 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 Stites?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Stites to be higher than in 76% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes and inland flooding.

Earthquakes44%Inland flooding37%Tornadoes6%Everything else13%

By hazard

What Stites faces

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

Earthquakes

44% of expected damage

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

Inland flooding

37% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 68% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 78% of U.S. places

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong 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 Stites flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: St. Clair County.

Disasters that hit Stites

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into StitesDeclared for St. Clair County only

2008

Severe Storms and Flooding

$750 to the Township of Stites for repairs

St. Clair County has had 17 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

Around Stites

Stites and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

East St. Louismostly inland floodingVery high

Fairmont Citymostly earthquakesVery high

Canteenmostly inland floodingVery high

Venicemostly inland floodingHigh

Stitesmostly earthquakesHigh

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