Natural hazards · Diamondhead

Diamondhead, AR natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Diamondhead comes from inland flooding, 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 Diamondhead?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Diamondhead to be higher than in 80% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding59%Tornadoes16%Ice storms5%Earthquakes5%Everything else15%

By hazard

What Diamondhead faces

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

Inland flooding

59% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

16% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 35 years in the area

Ice storms

5% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 98% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Earthquakes

5% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 77% of U.S. places

Lower here

HurricanesHailWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong 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 Diamondhead flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Garland County.

Disasters that hit Diamondhead

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into DiamondheadDeclared for Garland County only

Garland County has had 17 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. Diamondhead 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 Diamondhead’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Diamondhead. 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.