Natural hazards · Riverview

Riverview, AL natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Riverview comes from hurricanes, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 2009.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Riverview?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Riverview to be higher than in 95% of U.S. communities, mostly from hurricanes and inland flooding.

Hurricanes58%Inland flooding21%Tornadoes8%Everything else14%

By hazard

What Riverview faces

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

Hurricanes

58% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 98% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 5 years in the area

Inland flooding

21% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 73% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 83% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 7 years in the area

Lower here

HailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat 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 Riverview flood?

Every paid claim on a federal flood insurance policy in Riverview, from FEMA’s records.

1paid claims since 2009

$70Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20092026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Escambia County.

Disasters that hit Riverview

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into RiverviewDeclared for Escambia County only

Escambia County has had 24 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. Riverview 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 Riverview’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Riverview. 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.