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Natural hazards · Green Forest

Green Forest, AR natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Green Forest comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate 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 Green Forest?

51
Moderate
vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Green Forest 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 Green Forest 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 Green Forest flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured
of all homes
are insured
No community discount. Green Forest 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

4storm safe rooms built
Disasters that hit Green Forest

7 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into Green ForestDeclared for Carroll County only
2024

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

$5K to the City of Green Forest for repairs
2017

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

10 households applied for aid $8K aid approved $9K to the City of Green Forest for repairs
2015

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

2 households applied for aid $15K to the City of Green Forest for repairs
2011

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Associated Flooding

8 households applied for aid $26K aid approved $30K to the City of Green Forest for repairs
2009

Severe Winter Storm

$186K to the City of Green Forest for repairs
2008

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

9 households applied for aid $21K aid approved $12K to the City of Green Forest for repairs
2004

Sever Storms, Flooding and Landslides

$6K to the City of Green Forest for repairs
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. Green Forest 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 Green Forest’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Green Forest. 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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