Natural hazards · Fourche

Fourche, AR natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Fourche 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 Fourche?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

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

Inland flooding47%Tornadoes24%Ice storms6%Heat waves6%Everything else19%

By hazard

What Fourche faces

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

Inland flooding

47% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 91% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

24% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 9 years in the area

Ice storms

6% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Heat waves

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 70% of U.S. places

Recorded about 17 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailWinter weatherCold wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong 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 Fourche flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Perry County.

Disasters that hit Fourche

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into FourcheDeclared for Perry County only

Perry 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. Fourche 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 Fourche’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Fourche. 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.