Natural hazards · Wabash

Wabash, IL natural hazards

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

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Wabash to be higher than in 46% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding43%Drought14%Earthquakes14%Cold waves8%Tornadoes8%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Wabash 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

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Drought

14% of expected damage

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

14% of expected damage

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

Cold waves

8% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 50% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 75% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 5 years in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat 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 Wabash flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Clark County.

Disasters that hit Wabash

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into WabashDeclared for Clark County only

Clark County has had 8 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

Around Wabash

Wabash and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Wabashmostly inland floodingModerate

Douglasmostly inland floodingModerate

Darwinmostly inland floodingModerate

Sugar Creekmostly inland floodingLow

Prairietonmostly inland floodingLow

Elbridgemostly inland floodingLow

Marshallmostly inland floodingLow

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