Natural hazards · Suez

Suez, IL natural hazards

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

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Suez to be higher than in 56% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and strong winds.

Inland flooding20%Strong wind19%Drought18%Cold waves14%Heat waves8%Lightning7%Everything else15%

By hazard

What Suez faces

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

Inland flooding

20% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 60% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Strong wind

19% of expected damage

Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Drought

18% of expected damage

Recorded about 9 times a year in the area

Cold waves

14% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 51% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Heat waves

8% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 33% of U.S. places

Recorded about 8 times a year in the area

Lightning

7% of expected damage

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

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireEarthquakesLandslides

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 Suez flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Mercer County.

Disasters that hit Suez

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into SuezDeclared for Mercer County only

Mercer County has had 13 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and winter storms.

Around Suez

Suez and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Spring Grovemostly droughtHigh

Suezmostly inland floodingModerate

Greenemostly inland floodingModerate

Ohio Grovemostly inland floodingModerate

North Hendersonmostly inland floodingModerate

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