Natural hazards · Ashdown

Ashdown, AR natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Ashdown comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 2 claims here since 2001. 3 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

FEMA National Risk Index, December 2025 · OpenFEMA claims, aid & declarations

Expected damage

How exposed is Ashdown?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Ashdown to be higher than in 67% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding41%Ice storms14%Tornadoes12%Earthquakes8%Hail8%Lightning6%Everything else10%

By hazard

What Ashdown faces

Each hazard’s share of the damage FEMA expects here, and how that compares with the rest of the country.

Inland flooding

41% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 51% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Ice storms

14% of expected damage

Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Tornadoes

12% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 87% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 67 years in the area

Earthquakes

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 77% of U.S. places

Hail

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 95% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Lightning

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 91% of U.S. places

Lower here

HurricanesWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windDrought

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic activity

Flood risk changes street by street. Check a specific address on FEMA’s flood map, and ask about flood insurance before you buy.

Flood insurance claims

Does Ashdown flood?

Every paid claim on a federal flood insurance policy in Ashdown, from FEMA’s records.

2paid claims since 2001

$82Kpaid to owners

1homes flooded more than once

20012026

Homes that flooded again and again

■ FEMA “severe repetitive loss” (0) ■ flooded 2+ times

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Ashdown isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.

Insurance rates: Little River County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

3storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Ashdown

3 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Ashdown itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the City of Ashdown.

Brought FEMA money into AshdownDeclared for Little River County only

2015

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, Straight-Line Winds, and Flooding

28 households applied for aid $23K aid approved

2004

Severe Storms and Flooding

$12K to the City of Ashdown for repairs

2000

Severe Winter Ice Storm

$370K to the City of Ashdown for repairs

Little River County has had 17 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

About these numbers

How to read this page

An average, not a forecastFEMA’s National Risk Index estimates the damage 18 kinds of natural hazards cause in a typical year, from decades of records and models. A quiet decade can follow a bad year.

Compared by rate“Higher than N%” compares yearly damage as a share of what’s here, so a big city isn’t rated riskier just for having more buildings. Ashdown is smaller than a census tract, so it shares the figures of the tract around its center.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Ashdown’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Ashdown. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

Sources: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025); OpenFEMA: NFIP redacted claims, multiple-loss properties, community status book and residential penetration rates, housing assistance (owners and renters), public assistance funded projects, hazard mitigation properties and disaster declarations. Census tracts: U.S. Census Bureau.