Natural hazards · Mignon

Mignon, AL natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Mignon?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Mignon to be higher than in 55% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding51%Tornadoes19%Cold waves17%Everything else13%

By hazard

What Mignon faces

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

Inland flooding

51% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 70% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

19% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 94% of U.S. places

Cold waves

17% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce 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 Mignon flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Talladega County.

Disasters that hit Mignon

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into MignonDeclared for Talladega County only

Talladega County has had 23 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and severe storms.

Around Mignon

Mignon and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Mignonmostly inland floodingModerate

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