Natural hazards · Mountain View

Mountain View, AR natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Mountain View comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 2 claims here since 1985. 8 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Mountain View?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Mountain View to be higher than in 84% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and ice storms.

Inland flooding32%Ice storms24%Tornadoes21%Earthquakes7%Cold waves5%Everything else10%

By hazard

What Mountain View faces

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

Inland flooding

32% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 71% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Ice storms

24% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

21% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 13 years in the area

Earthquakes

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 80% of U.S. places

Cold waves

5% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 45% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightning

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 Mountain View flood?

Every paid claim on a federal flood insurance policy in Mountain View, from FEMA’s records.

2paid claims since 1985

$52Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19852026

Biggest named events

March storm: 1 claim, $50K

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Stone County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

12storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Mountain View

8 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into Mountain ViewDeclared for Stone County only

2025

Severe Storms and Tornadoes

3 households applied for aid $23K aid approved

2015

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

$132K to the City of Mountain View for repairs

2011

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Associated Flooding

$138K to the City of Mountain View for repairs

2009

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

$2K to the City of Mountain View for repairs

2009

Severe Winter Storm

$87K to the City of Mountain View for repairs

2008

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

391 households applied for aid $1.2M aid approved $547K to the City of Mountain View for repairs

2002

Severe Ice Storm

$8K to the City of Mountain View for repairs

2000

Severe Winter Ice Storm

$8K to the City of Mountain View for repairs

Stone County has had 24 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. Mountain View 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 Mountain View’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Mountain View. 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.