Natural hazards · Crossett

Crossett, AR natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Crossett comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 8 claims here since 1979. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Crossett?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Crossett to be higher than in 58% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding39%Tornadoes19%Earthquakes15%Heat waves8%Everything else19%

By hazard

What Crossett faces

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

Inland flooding

39% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 49% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

19% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 93% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 60 years in the area

Earthquakes

15% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 80% of U.S. places

Heat waves

8% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 71% of U.S. places

Recorded about 19 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold 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 Crossett flood?

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

8paid claims since 1979

$11Kpaid to owners

1homes flooded more than once

19792026

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. Crossett isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.

Insurance rates: Ashley County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

2storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Crossett

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into CrossettDeclared for Ashley County only

2009

Severe Storms and Tornadoes

30 households applied for aid $68K aid approved

Ashley County has had 13 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. Crossett covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

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

FEMA’s expected losses across Crossett total about $3.0M a year, counting buildings, people and crops.

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.