Photo: Nsaum75 · CC BY-SA 4.0Storms, floods and disasters in Mount Enterprise
Mount Enterprise isn’t graded for hazard risk: Mount Enterprise has 357 residents; we grade towns of 1,000 or more.
What Mount Enterprise faces
Each hazard’s share of the building damage FEMA expects here, and how its rate compares with the rest of the country.
River and rain flooding
Tornadoes
Strong wind
Hurricanes
Shares are of FEMA’s expected building damage, the measure the grade uses; ranks compare each hazard’s building-damage rate with all 85,154 U.S. census tracts. In FEMA’s terms, river and rain flooding is FEMA’s “Inland Flooding” (rivers and streams overflowing their banks, or rain overwhelming drainage). FEMA defines coastal flooding as high or rising tides and storm surge, so surge damage is counted there. Drought isn’t listed: FEMA counts its losses in crops only.
Does Mount Enterprise flood? No paid flood claims on record
FEMA’s records show no paid flood insurance claims in Mount Enterprise. That’s not a promise: most homes don’t carry flood insurance, so small floods go unrecorded.
Mount Enterprise isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.
Insurance rates: Rusk County.4 federal disasters brought FEMA money to Mount Enterprise
Disasters that paid out in Mount Enterprise itself (aid to households or repair grants to the City of Mount Enterprise), newest first, with that year’s flood claims.
- 2024Severe Storms, Straight-line Winds, Tornadoes, and Flooding22 households applied for aid$46K aid approved
- 2021Severe Winter Storms61 households applied for aid$55K aid approved
- 2008Hurricane Ike82 households applied for aid$39K aid approved$26K to the City of Mount Enterprise for repairs
- 2005Hurricane Rita$2K to the City of Mount Enterprise for repairs
Rusk County has had 21 natural disasters declared by the President since 1953, most often severe storms, then hurricanes and tropical storms. Not counted: the 2005 Hurricane Katrina evacuee emergency, which covered counties that took in evacuees.
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A short kit for the hazards that drive the building damage here, what to check before you buy, and where neighbors get alerts.
- Turn around at flooded roads: a foot of moving water can carry off a car.
- Flood insurance usually takes 30 days to start, so buy it before the forecast.
- Keep papers and medicines up high, in a grab-and-go bag.
- Pick your spot now: the lowest floor, an inside room, no windows.
- A watch means be ready; a warning means take cover now.
- Keep shoes and a flashlight by the bed.
- Trim dead limbs over the house and driveway.
- Tie down trash cans and outdoor furniture.
- Stay clear of downed lines and call the utility.
- The season runs June through November and peaks from mid-August to mid-October.
- Bring in porch furniture and anything the wind can throw.
- Fill the gas tank and charge phones before the storm arrives.
- Look up the address on FEMA’s flood map.
- Ask the seller or landlord whether it has ever flooded, and what flood insurance costs there.
- Get a flood insurance quote early: policies usually start 30 days after you buy.
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Questions about natural hazards in Mount Enterprise
Is Mount Enterprise in a flood zone?
Flood zones are drawn street by street, so the answer depends on the address: look it up on FEMA’s flood map. In Rusk County, 11% of homes in mapped flood zones carry federal flood insurance, and 0.3% of all homes do.
How much is flood insurance in Mount Enterprise?
FEMA’s Community Rating System list shows no discount for Mount Enterprise’s flood program. Premiums depend on the building; policies usually start 30 days after you buy, so get a quote early.
What was the biggest storm in Mount Enterprise?
By FEMA money that reached Mount Enterprise, Hurricane Ike (2008): 82 households applied for aid, $39K approved, and $26K to the City of Mount Enterprise for repairs.
Storm stories
Memories, warnings and help from neighbors in Mount Enterprise.
Sources: FEMA National Risk Index v1.20 (December 2025), census-tract table, combined by where Mount Enterprise’s residents lived in the 2020 census; 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. Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. Preparedness tips: Ready.gov. FEMA’s model is an average of expected damage, not a forecast. How hazard risk is graded.