Natural hazards · Rivervale

Rivervale, AR natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Rivervale?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Rivervale to be higher than in 88% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes.

Earthquakes55%Tornadoes13%Inland flooding11%Drought7%Cold waves6%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Rivervale faces

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

Earthquakes

55% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 97% of U.S. places

Tornadoes

13% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 97% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 8 years in the area

Inland flooding

11% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Drought

7% of expected damage

Recorded about 10 times a year in the area

Cold waves

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 56% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightning

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 Rivervale flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Poinsett County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

2storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Rivervale

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into RivervaleDeclared for Poinsett County only

Poinsett County has had 25 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. Rivervale 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 Rivervale’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Rivervale. 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.