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Natural hazards · Mountain View

Mountain View, MO natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Mountain View comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 2017. 7 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

How exposed is Mountain View?

62
High
vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Mountain View to be higher than in 62% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and earthquakes.

Inland flooding49%Earthquakes17%Tornadoes9%Cold waves7%Heat waves6%Everything else11%
By hazard

What Mountain View faces

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

Inland flooding

49% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 57% of U.S. places
Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

17% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 83% of U.S. places

Tornadoes

9% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 91% of U.S. places
Recorded about once every 42 years in the area

Cold waves

7% of expected damage
Below average · higher than 41% of U.S. places
Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Heat waves

6% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 74% of U.S. places
Recorded about 12 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireLandslidesStrong 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 Mountain View flood?

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

1paid claims since 2017
$2Kpaid to owners
0homes flooded more than once
20172026

Biggest named events

  • Late spring severe storms: 1 claim, $2K
of homes in flood zones
are insured
of all homes
are insured
No community discount. Mountain View isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.
Insurance rates: Howell County.
Disasters that hit Mountain View

7 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into Mountain ViewDeclared for Howell County only
2025

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

3 households applied for aid $13K aid approved $34K to the City of Mountain View for repairs
2025

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

1 household applied for aid
2024

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

37 households applied for aid $347K aid approved $41K to the City of Mountain View for repairs
2017

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, Straight-Line Winds and Flooding

28 households applied for aid $57K aid approved $100K to the City of Mountain View for repairs
2011

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

4 households applied for aid
2009

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

14 households applied for aid $38K aid approved
2008

Severe Storms and Flooding

1 household applied for aid
Howell 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. Mountain View 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 View’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Mountain View. 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.

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