Natural hazards · Venice

Venice, IL natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Venice comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 20 claims here since 1979.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Venice?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Venice to be higher than in 78% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and earthquakes.

Inland flooding43%Earthquakes28%Tornadoes12%Heat waves7%Cold waves6%Everything else5%

By hazard

What Venice faces

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

Inland flooding

43% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 80% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Earthquakes

28% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 86% of U.S. places

Tornadoes

12% of expected damage

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

Heat waves

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 86% of U.S. places

Recorded about 15 times a year in the area

Cold waves

6% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 18% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 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 Venice flood?

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

20paid claims since 1979

$165Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19792026

Biggest named events

Midwest Flooding: 2 claims, $11K
Early winter storms: 1 claim, $6K

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Madison County.

Disasters that hit Venice

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into VeniceDeclared for Madison County only

Madison County has had 14 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

Around Venice

Venice and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Granite Citymostly inland floodingVery high

Nameokimostly inland floodingVery high

Granite Citymostly inland floodingVery high

Madisonmostly inland floodingVery high

Venicemostly inland floodingHigh

St. Louismostly heat wavesHigh

Stitesmostly earthquakesHigh

Chouteaumostly inland floodingHigh

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. Venice covers 2 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Venice’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Venice. 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 Venice total about $3.5M 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.