Natural hazards · Letona

Letona, AR natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Letona comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Letona?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Letona to be higher than in 79% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and earthquakes.

Inland flooding41%Earthquakes18%Tornadoes17%Ice storms6%Heat waves6%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Letona faces

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

Inland flooding

41% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

18% of expected damage

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

Tornadoes

17% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 78% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 9 years in the area

Ice storms

6% of expected damage

Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Heat waves

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 72% of U.S. places

Recorded about 18 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailWinter 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 Letona flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: White County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

2storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Letona

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into LetonaDeclared for White County only

2014

Severe Storms,tornadoes, and Flooding

2 households applied for aid $591 aid approved

White County has had 24 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and ice storms.

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. Letona 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 Letona’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Letona. 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.