Natural hazards · Staves

Staves, AR natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Staves?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Staves to be higher than in 54% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding32%Tornadoes21%Earthquakes13%Heat waves10%Strong wind8%Ice storms7%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Staves faces

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

Inland flooding

32% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 44% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

21% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 90% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 5 years in the area

Earthquakes

13% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 79% of U.S. places

Heat waves

10% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 72% of U.S. places

Recorded about 19 times a year in the area

Strong wind

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 96% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Ice storms

7% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailWinter weatherCold wavesWildfireLandslidesLightningDrought

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 Staves flood?

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

Disasters that hit Staves

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into StavesDeclared for Cleveland County only

Cleveland County has had 17 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and winter storms.

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