Natural hazards · Dierks

Dierks, AR natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Dierks comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. 4 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Dierks?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Dierks to be higher than in 86% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and ice storms.

Inland flooding44%Ice storms32%Tornadoes7%Hail5%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Dierks faces

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

Inland flooding

44% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Ice storms

32% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 84% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Hail

5% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesWinter 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 Dierks flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Howard County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

8storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Dierks

4 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into DierksDeclared for Howard County only

2015

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, Straight-Line Winds, and Flooding

2 households applied for aid

2011

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Associated Flooding

$9K to the City of Dierks for repairs

2009

Severe Storms and Tornadoes

$446K to the City of Dierks for repairs

2000

Severe Winter Ice Storm

$363K to the City of Dierks for repairs

Howard County has had 19 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. Dierks 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 Dierks’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Dierks. 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.