Natural hazards · Oden

Oden, AR natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Oden?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Oden to be higher than in 79% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding63%Tornadoes13%Ice storms5%Strong wind5%Everything else14%

By hazard

What Oden faces

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

Inland flooding

63% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

13% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 6 years in the area

Ice storms

5% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Strong wind

5% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailWinter weatherCold wavesHeat 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 Oden flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Oden 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

1storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Oden

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into OdenDeclared for Montgomery County only

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. Oden 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 Oden’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Oden. 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.