Natural hazards · Lineville

Lineville, AL natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Lineville comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. 4 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Lineville?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Lineville to be higher than in 51% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding44%Tornadoes28%Cold waves9%Hurricanes5%Everything else14%

By hazard

What Lineville faces

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

Inland flooding

44% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 56% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

28% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 97% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 6 years in the area

Cold waves

9% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 74% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Hurricanes

5% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 71% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 18 years in the area

Lower here

HailIce 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 Lineville flood?

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

What’s been done with FEMA grants

17storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Lineville

4 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into LinevilleDeclared for Clay County only

2021

Severe Storms, Straight-Line Winds, and Tornadoes

4 households applied for aid

2020

Hurricane Zeta

$31K to the City of Lineville for repairs

2004

Hurricane Ivan

8 households applied for aid $18K aid approved

2003

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

24 households applied for aid $33K aid approved

Clay County has had 21 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and severe storms.

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. Lineville 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 Lineville’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Lineville. 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.