Natural hazards · Mount Ida

Mount Ida, AR natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Mount Ida comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. 3 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Mount Ida?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Mount Ida to be higher than in 67% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding54%Tornadoes16%Ice storms7%Strong wind6%Heat waves5%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Mount Ida faces

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

Inland flooding

54% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 73% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

16% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 89% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 9 years in the area

Ice storms

7% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Strong wind

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 93% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Heat waves

5% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 16 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailWinter weatherCold 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 Mount Ida flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Montgomery County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

4storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Mount Ida

3 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into Mount IdaDeclared for Montgomery County only

2017

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

$42K to the City of Mount Ida for repairs

2011

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Associated Flooding

1 household applied for aid $135 aid approved

2000

Severe Winter Ice Storm

$18K to the City of Mount Ida for repairs

Montgomery County has had 19 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. Mount Ida 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 Mount Ida’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Mount Ida. 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.