Arkansas

Comprehensive climate risk and disaster history profile

Billion-Dollar Events

$309.2B

Total Economic Impact

Counties

58.48

Avg Risk Score

Top Natural Hazards

Based on FEMA National Risk Index data across all 75 counties

Cold Wave

79.88 Avg Risk Score

Ice Storm

77.4 Avg Risk Score

Earthquake

76.28 Avg Risk Score

Heat Wave

69.05 Avg Risk Score

Tornado

66.96 Avg Risk Score

Riverine Flooding

66.48 Avg Risk Score

Strong Wind

65.65 Avg Risk Score

Drought

63.97 Avg Risk Score

Historical billion-dollar events by category (1980-2024)

severe-storm 43 events

$109.0B

flooding 9 events

$21.9B

drought 9 events

$62.3B

winter-storm 5 events

$28.9B

tropical-cyclone 5 events

$84.9B

freeze 1 events

$2.0B

How disaster frequency and costs have changed over time

Counties with the highest overall risk scores based on FEMA NRI

Rank	County	Risk Score	Risk Rating	SVI Percentile
1	Pulaski	95.07	Relatively Moderate	78.1%
2	Craighead	92.33	Relatively Moderate	83.4%
3	Washington	91.03	Relatively Moderate	76.6%
4	Faulkner	89.18	Relatively Moderate	53.3%
5	Mississippi	88.99	Relatively Moderate	93.3%
6	White	87.75	Relatively Moderate	84.8%
7	Benton	87.56	Relatively Moderate	32.7%
8	Garland	86.13	Relatively Moderate	86.6%
9	Jefferson	84.25	Relatively Moderate	91.0%
10	Sebastian	83.93	Relatively Moderate	87.0%