Natural hazards · McCurtain

McCurtain, OK natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in McCurtain comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is McCurtain?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in McCurtain to be higher than in 84% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and wildfires.

Inland flooding28%Wildfire28%Tornadoes12%Drought11%Heat waves7%Everything else15%

By hazard

What McCurtain faces

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

Inland flooding

28% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 68% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Wildfire

28% of expected damage

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

Tornadoes

12% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 6 years in the area

Drought

11% of expected damage

Recorded about 25 times a year in the area

Heat waves

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 81% of U.S. places

Recorded about 25 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

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 McCurtain flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Haskell County.

Disasters that hit McCurtain

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for Haskell County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching McCurtain itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into McCurtainDeclared for Haskell County only

Haskell County has had 26 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. McCurtain 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 McCurtain’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of McCurtain. 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.