Natural hazards · Dunnavant

Dunnavant, AL natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Dunnavant comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Dunnavant?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Dunnavant to be higher than in 69% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding49%Tornadoes32%Cold waves7%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Dunnavant faces

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

Inland flooding

49% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 80% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

32% of expected damage

Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 16 years in the area

Cold waves

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 79% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

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 Dunnavant flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Shelby County.

Disasters that hit Dunnavant

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into DunnavantDeclared for Shelby County only

Shelby County has had 24 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and hurricanes.

Around Dunnavant

Dunnavant and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Dunnavantmostly inland floodingHigh

Shoal Creekmostly inland floodingHigh

Vandivermostly inland floodingHigh

Hoovermostly inland floodingHigh

Birminghammostly inland floodingHigh

Leedsmostly 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. Dunnavant 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 Dunnavant’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Dunnavant. 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.