Natural hazards · Pleasant Grove

Pleasant Grove, AR natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Pleasant Grove comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very 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 Pleasant Grove?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Pleasant Grove to be higher than in 89% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and ice storms.

Inland flooding39%Ice storms20%Tornadoes20%Cold waves6%Everything else15%

By hazard

What Pleasant Grove faces

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

Inland flooding

39% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Ice storms

20% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

20% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 13 years in the area

Cold waves

6% 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 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 Pleasant Grove flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Pleasant 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: Stone County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

1storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Pleasant Grove

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into Pleasant GroveDeclared for Stone County only

2008

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

15 households applied for aid $1K aid approved

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. Pleasant 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 Pleasant Grove’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Pleasant 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.