Natural hazards · Atkins

Atkins, AR natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Atkins comes from tornadoes, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. 3 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Atkins?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Atkins to be higher than in 66% of U.S. communities, mostly from tornadoes and inland flooding.

Tornadoes33%Inland flooding26%Earthquakes13%Heat waves7%Drought5%Everything else16%

By hazard

What Atkins faces

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

Tornadoes

33% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 97% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 28 years in the area

Inland flooding

26% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 60% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

13% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 81% of U.S. places

Heat waves

7% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 74% of U.S. places

Recorded about 17 times a year in the area

Drought

5% of expected damage

Recorded about 11 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightning

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 Atkins flood?

FEMA's records show no paid flood insurance claims in Atkins.

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Pope County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

6storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Atkins

3 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into AtkinsDeclared for Pope County only

2019

Severe Storms and Flooding

8 households applied for aid $52K aid approved

2008

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

152 households applied for aid $530K aid approved $186K to the City of Atkins for repairs

2000

Severe Winter Ice Storm

$40K to the City of Atkins for repairs

Pope County has had 14 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and hurricanes.

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. Atkins 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 Atkins’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Atkins. 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.