Natural hazards · Yellville

Yellville, AR natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Yellville comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 2024. 5 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Yellville?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Yellville to be higher than in 81% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and ice storms.

Inland flooding39%Ice storms24%Cold waves11%Tornadoes9%Everything else17%

By hazard

What Yellville 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

Above average · higher than 70% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Ice storms

24% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Cold waves

11% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

9% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 86% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 16 years in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

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 Yellville flood?

Every paid claim on a federal flood insurance policy in Yellville, from FEMA’s records.

1paid claims since 2024

$1.0Mpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20242026

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Yellville 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

6storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Yellville

5 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into YellvilleDeclared for Marion County only

2024

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

146 households applied for aid $526K aid approved

2009

Severe Winter Storm

$64K to the City of Yellville for repairs

2008

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

14 households applied for aid $37K aid approved $8K to the City of Yellville for repairs

2004

Sever Storms, Flooding and Landslides

$5K to the City of Yellville for repairs

2000

Severe Winter Ice Storm

$11K to the City of Yellville for repairs

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