Natural hazards · Reed

Reed, AR natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Reed comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Reed?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Reed to be higher than in 58% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and earthquakes.

Inland flooding32%Earthquakes27%Tornadoes16%Heat waves8%Everything else17%

By hazard

What Reed faces

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

Inland flooding

32% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 45% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Earthquakes

27% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 83% of U.S. places

Tornadoes

16% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 96% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 33 years in the area

Heat waves

8% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 72% of U.S. places

Recorded about 20 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 Reed flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Desha County.

Disasters that hit Reed

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for Desha County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Reed itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into ReedDeclared for Desha County only

Desha County has had 16 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. Reed 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 Reed’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Reed. 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.