Natural hazards · Lamar

Lamar, AR natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Lamar comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Lamar?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Lamar to be higher than in 76% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding53%Tornadoes18%Ice storms7%Heat waves7%Everything else15%

By hazard

What Lamar faces

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

Inland flooding

53% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

18% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 62% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 16 years in the area

Ice storms

7% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Heat waves

7% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 74% of U.S. places

Recorded about 17 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailWinter weatherCold 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 Lamar flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Johnson County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

4storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Lamar

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into LamarDeclared for Johnson County only

2011

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

10 households applied for aid $93K aid approved

Johnson County has had 21 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. Lamar 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 Lamar’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Lamar. 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.