Natural hazards · Walnut Grove

Walnut Grove, AL natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Walnut Grove comes from tornadoes, 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 Walnut Grove?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Walnut Grove to be higher than in 64% of U.S. communities, mostly from tornadoes and inland flooding.

Tornadoes39%Inland flooding38%Cold waves7%Strong wind6%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Walnut Grove faces

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

Tornadoes

39% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 13 years in the area

Inland flooding

38% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Cold waves

7% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Strong wind

6% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightningDrought

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 Walnut Grove flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Etowah County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

2storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Walnut Grove

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Walnut GroveDeclared for Etowah County only

Etowah County has had 27 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and hurricanes.

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. Walnut Grove 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 Walnut Grove’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Walnut Grove. 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.