Natural hazards · Oak Grove

Oak Grove, AR natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Oak Grove 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 Oak Grove?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Oak Grove to be higher than in 60% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding43%Cold waves15%Tornadoes14%Ice storms11%Everything else17%

By hazard

What Oak Grove faces

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

Inland flooding

43% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 61% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Cold waves

15% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

14% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 87% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 8 years in the area

Ice storms

11% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong 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 Oak Grove flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Carroll County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

1storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Oak Grove

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into Oak GroveDeclared for Carroll County only

2017

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

1 household applied for aid

Carroll County has had 18 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. Oak Grove 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 Oak Grove’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Oak Grove. 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.