Natural hazards · Monteagle

Monteagle, TN natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Monteagle?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Monteagle to be higher than in 67% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding45%Tornadoes24%Cold waves15%Strong wind8%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Monteagle faces

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

Inland flooding

45% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 80% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

24% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 9 years in the area

Cold waves

15% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Strong wind

8% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightningDrought

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 Monteagle flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Marion County.

Disasters that hit Monteagle

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into MonteagleDeclared for Marion County only

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