Natural hazards · Fountain Hill

Fountain Hill, AR natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Fountain Hill 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 Fountain Hill?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Fountain Hill to be higher than in 70% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding43%Tornadoes17%Earthquakes13%Heat waves11%Everything else17%

By hazard

What Fountain Hill 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

Above average · higher than 74% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

17% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 90% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 9 years in the area

Earthquakes

13% of expected damage

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

Heat waves

11% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 19 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold 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 Fountain Hill flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Ashley County.

Disasters that hit Fountain Hill

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Fountain HillDeclared for Ashley County only

Ashley County has had 13 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. Fountain Hill 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 Fountain Hill’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Fountain Hill. 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.