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County hazard profile

Jackson, AR

Arkansas · pop. 16,727 · FIPS 05067

Relatively Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Ice Storm
dominant hazard
$17M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Jackson $17M

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 67.84/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (68th percentile)
Social vulnerabilityVery High 92.81/100
national median ~50 among the highest nationally
Community resilienceRelatively Low 36.77/100
national median ~50 lower than most counties (37th percentile)

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Jackson

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 174 flood-insurance claims totaling $3.1M in Jackson since 1979. The costliest year was 2011 ($809K paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1979: $7,024 paid 1980: $646 paid 1982: $401,638 paid 1987: $11,541 paid 1988: $872 paid 1989: $18,940 paid 1990: $11,379 paid 1997: $5,061 paid 1998: $8,332 paid 2001: $9,741 paid 2002: $0 paid 2003: $99,093 paid 2004: $43,069 paid 2007: $3,096 paid 2008: $294,487 paid 2009: $79,719 paid 2011: $809,457 paid 2012: $0 paid 2013: $46,451 paid 2015: $290,493 paid 2016: $206,621 paid 2017: $580,908 paid 2019: $12,075 paid 2020: $0 paid 2021: $21,089 paid 2022: $9,979 paid 2025: $111,274 paid 2011 · $809K 1979 2025
$3.1M
total paid
$17,718
average claim
$106K
largest single claim
75%
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 Jackson, AR and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Jackson 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.