Natural hazards · Beebe

Beebe, AR natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Beebe comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 13 claims here since 1997. 8 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Beebe?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Beebe to be higher than in 82% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and earthquakes.

Inland flooding37%Earthquakes32%Tornadoes14%Everything else17%

By hazard

What Beebe faces

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

Inland flooding

37% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 84% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

32% of expected damage

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

Tornadoes

14% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 78% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 56 years in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

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 Beebe flood?

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

13paid claims since 1997

$242Kpaid to owners

2homes flooded more than once

19972026

Biggest named events

Mid-spring storms: 2 claims, $49K
Early winter storms: 1 claim, $3K

Homes that flooded again and again

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: White County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

68storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Beebe

8 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into BeebeDeclared for White County only

2025

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

7 households applied for aid $47K aid approved

2014

Severe Storms,tornadoes, and Flooding

1 household applied for aid

2011

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Associated Flooding

75 households applied for aid $76K aid approved $261K to the City of Beebe for repairs

2008

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

1 household applied for aid $12K to the City of Beebe for repairs

2006

Severe Storms and Tornadoes

1 household applied for aid

2003

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

61 households applied for aid $193K aid approved

2000

Severe Winter Ice Storm

$59K to the City of Beebe for repairs

1999

Ar Severe Weather 1-21-99

$528K to the City of Beebe for repairs

White County has had 24 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and ice storms.

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