Natural hazards · Pea Ridge

Pea Ridge, WV natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Pea Ridge 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 Pea Ridge?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Pea Ridge to be higher than in 91% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding90%Everything else10%

By hazard

What Pea Ridge faces

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

Inland flooding

90% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 98% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

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 Pea Ridge flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Cabell County.

Disasters that hit Pea Ridge

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Pea RidgeDeclared for Cabell County only

Cabell County has had 25 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. Pea Ridge covers 2 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Pea Ridge’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Pea Ridge. 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 Pea Ridge total about $4.1M 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.