Natural hazards · Monette

Monette, AR natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Monette comes from earthquakes, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. 4 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Monette?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

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

Earthquakes63%Inland flooding10%Tornadoes9%Drought8%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Monette faces

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

Earthquakes

63% of expected damage

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

Inland flooding

10% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 34% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

9% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 85% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 8 years in the area

Drought

8% of expected damage

Recorded about 15 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightning

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 Monette flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Craighead County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

10storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Monette

4 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into MonetteDeclared for Craighead County only

2025

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

12 households applied for aid $2K aid approved

2021

Severe Storms and Tornadoes

44 households applied for aid $167K aid approved

2009

Severe Winter Storm

$173K to the City of Monette for repairs

2008

Tropical Storm Ike

$6K to the City of Monette for repairs

Craighead County has had 22 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and tornadoes.

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