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Alpena, AR natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Alpena comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. 5 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

How exposed is Alpena?

51
Moderate
vs. U.S. communities

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

Inland flooding36%Tornadoes19%Cold waves13%Ice storms11%Strong wind6%Everything else15%
By hazard

What Alpena faces

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

Inland flooding

36% of expected damage
Below average · higher than 48% of U.S. places
Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

19% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 87% of U.S. places
Recorded about once every 15 years in the area

Cold waves

13% of expected damage
Below average · higher than 45% of U.S. places
Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Ice storms

11% of expected damage
Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places
Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Strong wind

6% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 71% of U.S. places
Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

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 Alpena flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured
of all homes
are insured
No community discount. Alpena isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.
Insurance rates: Carroll County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

2storm safe rooms built
Disasters that hit Alpena

5 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into AlpenaDeclared for Carroll County only
2017

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, Straight-Line Winds, and Flooding

$2K to the Town of Alpena for repairs
2015

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, Straight-Line Winds, and Flooding

1 household applied for aid
2011

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Associated Flooding

4 households applied for aid $6K aid approved $38K to the Town of Alpena for repairs
2009

Severe Winter Storm

$15K to the Town of Alpena for repairs
2008

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

7 households applied for aid $2K aid approved
Carroll County has had 18 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.
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. Alpena 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 Alpena’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Alpena. 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.

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