Natural hazards · Oakland

Oakland, AR natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Oakland comes from ice storms, 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 Oakland?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Oakland to be higher than in 73% of U.S. communities, mostly from ice storms and inland flooding.

Ice storms29%Inland flooding26%Cold waves14%Tornadoes11%Strong wind6%Earthquakes5%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Oakland faces

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

Ice storms

29% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

26% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 39% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Cold waves

14% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 49% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

11% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 82% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 31 years 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

Earthquakes

5% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 76% of U.S. places

Lower here

HurricanesHailWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesLightning

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 Oakland flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Marion County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

1storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Oakland

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into OaklandDeclared for Marion County only

2024

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

2 households applied for aid $300 aid approved

Marion County has had 21 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. Oakland 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 Oakland’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Oakland. 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.