Natural hazards · Buckner

Buckner, AR natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Buckner comes from ice storms, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Buckner?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Buckner to be higher than in 93% of U.S. communities, mostly from ice storms and drought.

Ice storms38%Drought21%Inland flooding16%Tornadoes8%Everything else18%

By hazard

What Buckner faces

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

Ice storms

38% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Drought

21% of expected damage

Recorded about 31 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

16% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 63% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 94% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong 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 Buckner flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Lafayette County.

Disasters that hit Buckner

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for Lafayette County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Buckner itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into BucknerDeclared for Lafayette County only

Lafayette County has had 16 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. Buckner 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 Buckner’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Buckner. 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.