Natural hazards · Hensley

Hensley, AR natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Hensley comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is 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 Hensley?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Hensley to be higher than in 72% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and earthquakes.

Inland flooding38%Earthquakes23%Tornadoes23%Everything else15%

By hazard

What Hensley faces

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

Inland flooding

38% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 67% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

23% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 85% of U.S. places

Tornadoes

23% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 95% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 24 years in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong 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 Hensley flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Pulaski County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

14storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Hensley

4 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into HensleyDeclared for Pulaski County only

2025

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

15 households applied for aid $32K aid approved

2011

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Associated Flooding

4 households applied for aid $8K aid approved

2008

Severe Storms, Flooding, and Tornadoes

44 households applied for aid $278K aid approved

2008

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

4 households applied for aid

Pulaski County has had 28 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. Hensley 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 Hensley’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Hensley. 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.

Hensley, AR natural hazards

How exposed is Hensley?

What Hensley faces

Inland flooding

Earthquakes

Tornadoes

Lower here

Not a risk here

Does Hensley flood?

What’s been done with FEMA grants

4 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Associated Flooding

Severe Storms, Flooding, and Tornadoes

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

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