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Natural hazards · Glenwood

Glenwood, AR natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Glenwood comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 6 claims here since 1982. 4 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

How exposed is Glenwood?

81
Very high
vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Glenwood to be higher than in 81% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding58%Tornadoes10%Ice storms8%Strong wind7%Everything else17%
By hazard

What Glenwood faces

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

Inland flooding

58% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 87% of U.S. places
Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

10% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 82% of U.S. places
Recorded about once every 12 years in the area

Ice storms

8% of expected damage
Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places
Recorded about once a year in the area

Strong wind

7% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 98% of U.S. places
Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailWinter weatherCold wavesHeat 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 Glenwood flood?

Every paid claim on a federal flood insurance policy in Glenwood, from FEMA’s records.

6paid claims since 1982
$218Kpaid to owners
0homes flooded more than once
19822026
of all homes
are insured
No community discount. Glenwood isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.
Insurance rates: Pike County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

2storm safe rooms built
Disasters that hit Glenwood

4 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into GlenwoodDeclared for Pike County only
2011

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Associated Flooding

9 households applied for aid $15K aid approved $28K to the City of Glenwood for repairs
2009

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

$18K to the City of Glenwood for repairs
2008

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

$8K to the City of Glenwood for repairs
2000

Severe Winter Ice Storm

$25K to the City of Glenwood for repairs
Pike 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. Glenwood 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 Glenwood’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Glenwood. 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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