Property Atlas

County hazard profile

Washington, AR

Arkansas · pop. 245,782 · FIPS 05143

Relatively Moderate
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Ice Storm
dominant hazard
$130M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

near the national middle (40th percentile)

national median $15M/yr Washington $130M

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 Moderate 92.27/100
national median ~50 among the highest nationally
Social vulnerabilityRelatively Low 28.5/100
national median ~50 lower than most counties (29th percentile)
Community resilienceRelatively Low 35.08/100
national median ~50 lower than most counties (35th percentile)

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Washington

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 434 flood-insurance claims totaling $13.7M in Washington since 1980. The costliest year was 2017 ($4.5M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1980: $203 paid 1982: $14,813 paid 1984: $19,968 paid 1985: $3,776 paid 1986: $3,159 paid 1987: $4,283 paid 1996: $25,000 paid 1998: $5,375 paid 1999: $16,800 paid 2000: $45,294 paid 2004: $487,297 paid 2006: $80,096 paid 2007: $11,969 paid 2008: $686,648 paid 2009: $137,943 paid 2010: $100,575 paid 2011: $2,576,692 paid 2013: $1,012,558 paid 2014: $0 paid 2015: $288,411 paid 2016: $34,652 paid 2017: $4,515,859 paid 2018: $0 paid 2019: $275,498 paid 2020: $3,834 paid 2021: $12,358 paid 2022: $2,829,746 paid 2024: $0 paid 2025: $465,142 paid 2017 · $4.5M 1980 2025
$13.7M
total paid
$31,470
average claim
$328K
largest single claim
61%
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 Washington, AR and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Washington 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.