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County hazard profile

Arkansas, AR

Arkansas · pop. 17,079 · FIPS 05001

Relatively Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Earthquake
dominant hazard
$16M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

Expected annual loss · all 3,232 U.S. counties

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Arkansas $16M

A real dollar distribution: most counties sit far below a handful of high-exposure ones. A FEMA model of annual loss, not a record of disasters.

FEMA national percentile scores

FEMA/CDC score each county 0–100 against all others — the score is the national rank (RATING). Higher risk and vulnerability are worse; higher resilience is better.

FEMA risk indexRelatively Low 63.2/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (63rd percentile)
Social vulnerabilityVery High 85.88/100
national median ~50 higher than 86% of counties
Community resilienceRelatively Moderate 54.96/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (55th percentile)

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Arkansas

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 89 flood-insurance claims totaling $1.4M in Arkansas since 1979. The costliest year was 2011 ($570K paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1979: $20,221 paid 1983: $181 paid 1989: $6,290 paid 1991: $1,205 paid 1995: $11,561 paid 1997: $40,000 paid 2001: $9,464 paid 2002: $32,169 paid 2004: $11,632 paid 2008: $112,295 paid 2009: $126,101 paid 2011: $570,339 paid 2012: $0 paid 2014: $0 paid 2016: $10,635 paid 2017: $37,421 paid 2018: $65,019 paid 2019: $1,178 paid 2021: $276,452 paid 2023: $101,310 paid 2011 · $570K 1979 2023
$1.4M
total paid
$16,106
average claim
$90K
largest single claim
82%
in high-risk flood zones (A/V)

RECORDED — these are actual paid NFIP claims (a redacted census from OpenFEMA), not a model. They are the realized counterpart to the FEMA risk score above: one is what happened and got paid, the other is what a model predicts.

Scope: these are flood-insurance claims, so they undercount flooding where owners were uninsured — read this as "what NFIP paid here," not "every flood." County-level totals, not a per-property or per-address verdict. Verify a specific address and buy coverage at FloodSmart.gov; the underlying data is OpenFEMA NFIP Redacted Claims.

What these figures mean

  • RATING — the FEMA risk score, expected loss, social vulnerability, and resilience are FEMA/CDC models, not records of disasters that happened. The 0–100 scores are already national percentiles.
  • MEASURED — population is a recorded census figure.
  • COMPUTED — the county's rank within the dollar-loss distribution is our placement over the 3,232 counties.
  • CONTEXT — the note below is framing, not a measurement.

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What this is — and is not

This is FEMA/CDC modeled hazard exposure for Arkansas, AR and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Arkansas is a good or bad place to live — hazard exposure is not place quality, and a county can't opt out of its geography. It is not a per-property or per-address risk assessment, not a prediction of any specific disaster, and not insurance advice. For site-specific risk use a per-property assessment; for the underlying model see FEMA National Risk Index.