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County hazard profile

Pulaski, AR

Arkansas · pop. 398,830 · FIPS 05119

Relatively High
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Ice Storm
dominant hazard
$212M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

near the national middle (66th percentile)

national median $15M/yr Pulaski $212M

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 High 96.79/100
national median ~50 among the highest nationally
Social vulnerabilityRelatively High 61.29/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (61st percentile)
Community resilienceVery High 80.15/100
national median ~50 higher than 80% of counties

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Pulaski

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 1,719 flood-insurance claims totaling $30.4M in Pulaski since 1978. The costliest year was 2009 ($8.0M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1978: $1,773,322 paid 1979: $54,367 paid 1980: $730 paid 1981: $172,118 paid 1982: $104,809 paid 1983: $99,870 paid 1984: $616,031 paid 1985: $6,116 paid 1986: $0 paid 1987: $617,722 paid 1988: $284,091 paid 1989: $204,434 paid 1990: $259,575 paid 1991: $34,791 paid 1992: $6,140 paid 1993: $0 paid 1994: $60,435 paid 1995: $3,047 paid 1996: $187,199 paid 1997: $14,761 paid 1998: $11,526 paid 1999: $3,184 paid 2000: $8,506 paid 2001: $10,212 paid 2002: $3,445 paid 2003: $210,957 paid 2004: $111,037 paid 2005: $214,763 paid 2006: $378,154 paid 2007: $41,322 paid 2008: $169,021 paid 2009: $7,955,267 paid 2010: $163,739 paid 2011: $3,324,417 paid 2012: $140,242 paid 2013: $250,399 paid 2014: $69,259 paid 2015: $277,974 paid 2016: $391,219 paid 2017: $4,251,118 paid 2018: $231,436 paid 2019: $5,015,499 paid 2020: $131,991 paid 2021: $214,831 paid 2023: $0 paid 2024: $1,207,559 paid 2025: $1,076,890 paid 2009 · $8.0M 1978 2025
$30.4M
total paid
$17,663
average claim
$989K
largest single claim
64%
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 Pulaski, AR and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Pulaski 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.