Natural hazards · Cherry Valley

Cherry Valley, AR natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Cherry Valley comes from earthquakes, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. 7 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Cherry Valley?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Cherry Valley to be higher than in 88% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes and inland flooding.

Earthquakes49%Inland flooding23%Tornadoes8%Everything else20%

By hazard

What Cherry Valley faces

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

Earthquakes

49% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 93% of U.S. places

Inland flooding

23% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 80% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Tornadoes

8% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 9 years in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong 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 Cherry Valley flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Cross County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

5storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Cherry Valley

7 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Cherry Valley itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the City of Cherry Valley.

Brought FEMA money into Cherry ValleyDeclared for Cross County only

2025

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

$59K to the City of Cherry Valley for repairs

2023

Severe Storms and Tornadoes

8 households applied for aid $14K aid approved

2011

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Associated Flooding

2 households applied for aid $8K aid approved

2009

Severe Winter Storm

$8K to the City of Cherry Valley for repairs

2006

Severe Storms and Tornadoes

4 households applied for aid $2K aid approved $1K to the City of Cherry Valley for repairs

2003

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

16 households applied for aid $37K aid approved

2000

Severe Winter Ice Storm

$10K to the City of Cherry Valley for repairs

Cross County has had 19 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. Cherry Valley 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 Cherry Valley’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Cherry Valley. 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.