Natural hazards · Yellowhead

Yellowhead, IL natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Yellowhead comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very 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 Yellowhead?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Yellowhead to be higher than in 84% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding78%Cold waves12%Tornadoes6%Everything else5%

By hazard

What Yellowhead faces

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

Inland flooding

78% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 96% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Cold waves

12% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 17% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 76% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 18 years in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingDroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Yellowhead flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Kankakee County.

Disasters that hit Yellowhead

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into YellowheadDeclared for Kankakee County only

1999

Il-Winter Storm 1/1/99

$6K to the Township of Yellowhead for repairs

Kankakee County has had 5 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often winter storms and hurricanes.

Around Yellowhead

Yellowhead and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Yellowheadmostly inland floodingVery high

Momencemostly inland floodingVery high

Sumnermostly inland floodingModerate

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