Natural hazards · Keo

Keo, AR natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Keo comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. 3 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Keo?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Keo to be higher than in 81% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and earthquakes.

Inland flooding47%Earthquakes20%Tornadoes12%Hail6%Everything else16%

By hazard

What Keo 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 83% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

20% of expected damage

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

Tornadoes

12% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 97% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 8 years in the area

Hail

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 69% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesIce 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 Keo flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Lonoke County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

1storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Keo

3 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into KeoDeclared for Lonoke County only

2023

Severe Storms and Tornadoes

1 household applied for aid

2011

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Associated Flooding

1 household applied for aid

2008

Severe Storms, Flooding, and Tornadoes

2 households applied for aid

Lonoke County has had 25 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. Keo 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 Keo’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Keo. 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.