Natural hazards · Mount Olive

Mount Olive, AR natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Mount Olive comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Mount Olive?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Mount Olive to be higher than in 95% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and ice storms.

Inland flooding52%Ice storms19%Tornadoes8%Cold waves7%Everything else15%

By hazard

What Mount Olive faces

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

Inland flooding

52% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 97% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Ice storms

19% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 95% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 7 years in the area

Cold waves

7% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 43% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong 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 Mount Olive flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Izard County.

Disasters that hit Mount Olive

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for Izard County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Mount Olive itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into Mount OliveDeclared for Izard County only

Izard County has had 25 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 Olive 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 Olive’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Mount Olive. 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.