Natural hazards · Wysox

Wysox, IL natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Wysox comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 1981.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Wysox?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Wysox to be higher than in 32% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and drought.

Inland flooding40%Drought19%Tornadoes12%Strong wind10%Cold waves9%Hail6%Everything else4%

By hazard

What Wysox faces

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

Inland flooding

40% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Drought

19% of expected damage

Recorded about 12 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

12% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 10 years in the area

Strong wind

10% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 98% of U.S. places

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Cold waves

9% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 22% of U.S. places

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Hail

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 87% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

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 Wysox flood?

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

1paid claims since 1981

$320paid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19812026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Carroll County.

Disasters that hit Wysox

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into WysoxDeclared for Carroll County only

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

Around Wysox

Wysox and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Fairhavenmostly inland floodingModerate

Geneseemostly inland floodingModerate

Wysoxmostly inland floodingLow

Elkhorn Grovemostly inland floodingLow

Rock Creek-Limamostly 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. Wysox covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Wysox’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Wysox. 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 Wysox total about $2.0M 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.