Natural hazards · Dora

Dora, AR natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Dora comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Dora?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Dora to be higher than in 73% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and heat waves.

Inland flooding41%Heat waves19%Tornadoes17%Cold waves7%Everything else16%

By hazard

What Dora faces

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

Inland flooding

41% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 83% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Heat waves

19% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 86% of U.S. places

Recorded about 24 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

17% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 83% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 45 years in the area

Cold waves

7% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 65% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong 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 Dora flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Crawford County.

Disasters that hit Dora

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into DoraDeclared for Crawford County only

Crawford County has had 20 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

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