Natural hazards · Dennard

Dennard, AR natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Dennard comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Dennard?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Dennard to be higher than in 78% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding35%Tornadoes31%Ice storms11%Everything else23%

By hazard

What Dennard faces

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

Inland flooding

35% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 75% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

31% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 6 years in the area

Ice storms

11% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingDroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Dennard flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Van Buren County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

2storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Dennard

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into DennardDeclared for Van Buren County only

2008

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

3 households applied for aid $36K aid approved

Van Buren County has had 21 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. Dennard 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 Dennard’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Dennard. 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.