Morgan County, IL Tornado Risk & Storm Shelter Cost
Morgan County's tornado history, by the numbers
Since 1955, NOAA has logged 43 tornado tracks crossing Morgan County - one about every 1.8 years, which lands it in our High band. Nationally, Morgan County ranks at the 83rd percentile for tornado frequency. Among 102 Illinois counties in this dataset, Morgan County ranks 27 for how often a tornado touches down.
Morgan County's EF4-5 history
Morgan County's record has no EF4-5 tornado - its 43 tracks split 32 weak and 10 significant. That does not rule one out in the future, only that none has been recorded since 1950.
What a storm shelter costs near Morgan County
For a Morgan County homeowner, budget $2,890-$13,280 for a shelter or safe room ($7,645 typical) - this pass found no Illinois-specific rebate on top of FEMA's underlying 75% national cost-share program.
The outage nobody plans for
A direct hit is not required for Morgan County to lose power - outbreak-wide outages across Illinois regularly reach homes and businesses well outside the actual tracks. A battery bank covers that gap without a generator's fuel and venting needs.
Read this before you rely on it
This is a county-level figure, not a per-address probability. Morgan County covers about 569 square miles, so a single touch here counts the same as a single touch in a county a fraction of that size. Pre-radar-era records (before the 1990s) are also documented by NOAA as undercounting weaker tornadoes in sparsely-instrumented areas. Morgan County has about 32,618 residents.