Natural hazards · Mounds

Mounds, OK natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Mounds comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. 5 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Mounds?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Mounds to be higher than in 76% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding31%Tornadoes18%Cold waves17%Heat waves12%Ice storms6%Wildfire6%Everything else10%

By hazard

What Mounds faces

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

Inland flooding

31% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 78% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

18% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 21 years in the area

Cold waves

17% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 87% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Heat waves

12% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 75% of U.S. places

Recorded about 25 times a year in the area

Ice storms

6% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Wildfire

6% of expected damage

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

Lower here

HurricanesHailWinter weatherEarthquakesLandslidesStrong 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 Mounds flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Creek County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

22storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Mounds

5 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into MoundsDeclared for Creek County only

2021

Severe Winter Storms

10 households applied for aid $71K aid approved

2019

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

12 households applied for aid $3K aid approved

2015

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

25 households applied for aid $45K aid approved

2007

Severe Storms, Flooding, and Tornadoes

2 households applied for aid $356 aid approved

2005

Extreme Wildfire Threat

1 household applied for aid $11K aid approved

Creek County has had 34 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires and severe storms.

Around Mounds

Mounds and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Moundsmostly inland floodingHigh

Sapulpamostly inland floodingHigh

Glenpoolmostly heat wavesLow

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. Mounds 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 Mounds’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Mounds. 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.