Natural hazards · Centerville

Centerville, AR natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Centerville comes from inland flooding, 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 Centerville?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Centerville to be higher than in 77% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding43%Tornadoes25%Heat waves6%Lightning6%Everything else20%

By hazard

What Centerville faces

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

Inland flooding

43% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

25% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 8 years in the area

Heat waves

6% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 17 times a year in the area

Lightning

6% of expected damage

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

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windDrought

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 Centerville flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Yell County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

1storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Centerville

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into CentervilleDeclared for Yell County only

Yell County has had 17 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. Centerville 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 Centerville’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Centerville. 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.