Natural hazards · Mountain Grove

Mountain Grove, MO natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Mountain Grove comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 4 claims here since 2013. 6 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Mountain Grove?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Mountain Grove to be higher than in 52% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding45%Cold waves11%Earthquakes11%Tornadoes9%Heat waves9%Strong wind7%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Mountain Grove faces

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

Inland flooding

45% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 46% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Cold waves

11% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 41% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

11% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 80% of U.S. places

Tornadoes

9% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 64% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 40 years in the area

Heat waves

9% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 12 times a year in the area

Strong wind

7% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailWinter weatherWildfireLandslidesLightning

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 Mountain Grove flood?

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

4paid claims since 2013

$73Kpaid to owners

1homes flooded more than once

20132026

Biggest named events

Late spring severe storms: 1 claim, $2K

Homes that flooded again and again

■ FEMA “severe repetitive loss” (0) ■ flooded 2+ times

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Mountain 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: Wright County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

1storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Mountain Grove

6 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into Mountain GroveDeclared for Wright County only

2017

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, Straight-Line Winds and Flooding

11 households applied for aid $21K aid approved

2015

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

6 households applied for aid

2009

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

10 households applied for aid $42K aid approved

2008

Severe Storms and Flooding

1 household applied for aid $10K aid approved

2008

Severe Winter Storms and Flooding

$57K to the City of Mountain Grove for repairs

2002

Severe Storms, Tornadoes and Flooding

$11K to the City of Mountain Grove for repairs

Wright County has had 21 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and ice storms.

Around Mountain Grove

Mountain Grove and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Clintonmostly inland floodingHigh

Mountain Grovemostly inland floodingModerate

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