Storm damage restoration across Kendall County

Storm Damage 911 is a free matching service connecting homeowners in all 8 Kendall County communities we cover with vetted, licensed, insured storm damage restoration contractors. Kendall County sits in the heart of northern Illinois's severe weather corridor, where it has sustained some of the state's most destructive storms: the August 28, 1990 F-5 Plainfield tornado touched down near Oswego in Kendall County, killed 29 people, and destroyed or damaged over 1,400 homes along a 16-mile path, while Minooka recorded the former Illinois state record hailstone at 4.75 inches in June 2015 and confirmed EF-1 tornadoes struck Yorkville, Oswego, and Plattville in subsequent years.

Kendall County sits in the heart of northern Illinois's severe weather corridor, where it has sustained some of the state's most destructive storms: the August 28, 1990 F-5 Plainfield tornado touched down near Oswego in Kendall County, killed 29 people, and destroyed or damaged over 1,400 homes along a 16-mile path, while Minooka recorded the former Illinois state record hailstone at 4.75 inches in June 2015 and confirmed EF-1 tornadoes struck Yorkville, Oswego, and Plattville in subsequent years. Supercell thunderstorms tracking along the I-80 corridor routinely produce golf-ball to baseball-sized hail, 70-plus mph straight-line winds, and derechos that strip roofing, siding, and gutters across the county's growing residential subdivisions. Flash flooding is a recurring hazard - a single September 2019 storm dropped over five inches of rain near Plainfield, closed I-80 near Minooka, and overwhelmed sump pumps and sewer systems throughout low-lying neighborhoods. Winter brings additional roof stress from heavy wet snow loads and ice damming on freeze-thaw cycles, with January lows averaging near 10°F and periodic ice storms that compound structural damage already initiated by autumn hail events.