Natural hazards · Marietta

Marietta, OK natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Marietta comes from tornadoes, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 2010. 3 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Marietta?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Marietta to be higher than in 47% of U.S. communities, mostly from tornadoes and inland flooding.

Tornadoes30%Inland flooding21%Strong wind18%Heat waves9%Hail9%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Marietta faces

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

Tornadoes

30% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 89% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 53 years in the area

Inland flooding

21% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 28% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Strong wind

18% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Heat waves

9% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 20 times a year in the area

Hail

9% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 9 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

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 Marietta flood?

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

1paid claims since 2010

$10Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20102026

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Marietta isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.

Insurance rates: Love County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

154storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Marietta

3 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into MariettaDeclared for Love County only

2024

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

195 households applied for aid $630K aid approved $9K to the City of Marietta for repairs

2015

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

36 households applied for aid $63K aid approved

2000

Severe Winter Ice Storm

$11K to the City of Marietta for repairs

Love County has had 22 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and ice 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. Marietta 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 Marietta’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Marietta. 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.