Natural hazards · Poyen

Poyen, AR natural hazards

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

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Poyen to be higher than in 70% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding40%Tornadoes21%Heat waves9%Earthquakes8%Strong wind8%Ice storms7%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Poyen 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

Above average · higher than 71% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

21% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 93% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 6 years in the area

Heat waves

9% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 71% of U.S. places

Recorded about 19 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 78% of U.S. places

Strong wind

8% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Ice storms

7% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailWinter weatherCold wavesWildfireLandslidesLightningDrought

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 Poyen flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Grant County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

1storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Poyen

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into PoyenDeclared for Grant County only

2000

Severe Winter Ice Storm

$4K to the Town of Poyen for repairs

Grant County has had 15 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and hurricanes.

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