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Mayflower, AR natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Mayflower comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 69 claims here since 1994. 7 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

How exposed is Mayflower?

79
High
vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Mayflower to be higher than in 79% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding40%Tornadoes29%Earthquakes9%Heat waves6%Everything else16%
By hazard

What Mayflower faces

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

Inland flooding

40% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 86% of U.S. places
Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

29% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 89% of U.S. places
Recorded about once every 20 years in the area

Earthquakes

9% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 81% of U.S. places

Heat waves

6% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 70% of U.S. places
Recorded about 18 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold 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 Mayflower flood?

Every paid claim on a federal flood insurance policy in Mayflower, from FEMA’s records.

69paid claims since 1994
$1.3Mpaid to owners
16homes flooded more than once
19942026

Biggest named events

  • Mid-spring storms: 27 claims, $505K

Homes that flooded again and again

■ FEMA “severe repetitive loss” (1) ■ flooded 2+ times

of homes in flood zones
are insured
of all homes
are insured
No community discount. Mayflower isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.
Insurance rates: Faulkner County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

8storm safe rooms built
5flood-prone properties bought out and cleared
Disasters that hit Mayflower

7 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into MayflowerDeclared for Faulkner County only
2019

Severe Storms and Flooding

131 households applied for aid $372K aid approved $1.1M to the City of Mayflower for repairs
2017

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, Straight-Line Winds, and Flooding

1 household applied for aid
2015

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, Straight-Line Winds, and Flooding

29 households applied for aid $54K aid approved
2014

Severe Storms,tornadoes, and Flooding

564 households applied for aid $655K aid approved $160K to the City of Mayflower for repairs
2011

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Associated Flooding

115 households applied for aid $405K aid approved $97K to the City of Mayflower for repairs
2003

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

1 household applied for aid $335 aid approved
2000

Severe Winter Ice Storm

$54K to the City of Mayflower for repairs
Faulkner County has had 24 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. Mayflower 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 Mayflower’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Mayflower. 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.

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