Property Atlas

County hazard profile

Pope, AR

Arkansas · pop. 63,305 · FIPS 05115

Relatively Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Ice Storm
dominant hazard
$39M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Pope $39M

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 77.83/100
national median ~50 higher than 78% of counties
Social vulnerabilityRelatively Low 36.77/100
national median ~50 lower than most counties (37th percentile)
Community resilienceRelatively Moderate 58.97/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (59th percentile)

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Pope

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 64 flood-insurance claims totaling $970K in Pope since 1978. The costliest year was 2011 ($344K paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1978: $2,778 paid 1980: $0 paid 1982: $156,628 paid 1983: $899 paid 1984: $5,405 paid 1993: $28,674 paid 1996: $0 paid 1998: $141,013 paid 2001: $389 paid 2007: $54,790 paid 2008: $4,804 paid 2009: $12,456 paid 2010: $2,458 paid 2011: $344,389 paid 2012: $2,443 paid 2013: $33,390 paid 2015: $20,352 paid 2017: $46,306 paid 2019: $68,950 paid 2021: $4,943 paid 2022: $1,206 paid 2023: $37,710 paid 2011 · $344K 1978 2023
$970K
total paid
$15,156
average claim
$126K
largest single claim
36%
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 Pope, AR and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Pope 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.