Natural hazards · Mountain View

Mountain View, NC natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Mountain View comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Mountain View?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Mountain View to be higher than in 26% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding65%Tornadoes12%Earthquakes6%Everything else18%

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

65% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

12% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 63% of U.S. places

Earthquakes

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 60% of U.S. places

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

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 Mountain View flood?

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

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: Catawba County.

Disasters that hit Mountain View

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into Mountain ViewDeclared for Catawba County only

2024

Tropical Storm Helene

1 household applied for aid

Catawba County has had 18 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and winter storms.

Around Mountain View

Mountain View and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Hickorymostly inland floodingLow

Brookfordmostly inland floodingLow

Mountain Viewmostly inland floodingLow

Long Viewmostly inland floodingVery low

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 covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

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 Mountain View. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

FEMA’s expected losses across Mountain View total about $1.2M a year, counting buildings, people and crops.

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.