Natural hazards · Cash

Cash, AR natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Cash comes from earthquakes, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 2007. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Cash?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Cash to be higher than in 75% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes and tornadoes.

Earthquakes32%Tornadoes18%Inland flooding18%Drought11%Cold waves10%Heat waves5%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Cash faces

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

Earthquakes

32% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 89% of U.S. places

Tornadoes

18% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 89% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 7 years in the area

Inland flooding

18% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 53% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Drought

11% of expected damage

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Cold waves

10% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 92% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Heat waves

5% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 64% of U.S. places

Recorded about 20 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireLandslidesStrong 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 Cash flood?

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

1paid claims since 2007

$4Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20072026

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Craighead County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

1storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Cash

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into CashDeclared for Craighead County only

2025

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

1 household applied for aid

Craighead County has had 22 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and tornadoes.

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