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Flood history / Illinois / ZIP 60901

ZIP 60901
Kankakee County, IL

Paid claims3261978–2024
Total paid$6.3M$19K average
Heaviest year201858 claims
Outside high-risk zone14%of claims with a rated zone

Property owners in ZIP 60901 have been paid $6.3M on 326 National Flood Insurance Program claims between 1978 and 2024 — an average of $19K a claim, across 33 separate years in which someone here filed and was paid.

The heaviest year

2018 is the heaviest year on file: 58 paid claims, 17.8% of the ZIP's total. The rest is spread across the other 32 years on file. The largest named event in the record is Early winter storms, with 5 claims.

61 of those claims — 18.7% — were filed since 2017. The pattern here is still active.

Named eventPaid claimsShare of record
Early winter storms51.5%
Hurricane Ike51.5%

Where the claims sat on the map

Of the 297 claims here that record a rated flood zone, 43 — 14.5% — were on properties rated outside the mapped high-risk area, in a B, C or X zone. Claims here concentrate inside the mapped high-risk area, which is what the maps intend. Flood insurance is not required outside the high-risk zone, and most properties there do not carry it — so these counts come from the minority who did.

The water near this ZIP

The closest gauges publishing official flood thresholds are Iroquois River near Chebanse (8.1 mi), Kankakee River at Momence (12.7 mi) and Kankakee River near Wilmington (22.0 mi). A gauge describes one point on one river — it will not see street drainage, sewer backup, storm surge or flash flooding.

Read current gauge conditions for 60901 →

What this does not say

These are paid National Flood Insurance Program claims, nothing more. They count insured properties whose owners filed and were paid, so they are a floor on how often this ZIP has flooded — never a measure of how likely it is to flood next. Uninsured flooding leaves no trace here at all.

The figures are aggregates published by FEMA. No individual claim, address or policyholder appears on this page or in the data behind it. Nothing here is a forecast, a warning, or advice about insurance.

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