Natural hazards · Stamps

Stamps, AR natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Stamps comes from ice storms, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. 4 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Stamps?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Stamps to be higher than in 86% of U.S. communities, mostly from ice storms and inland flooding.

Ice storms37%Inland flooding29%Tornadoes11%Hail7%Strong wind5%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Stamps faces

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

Ice storms

37% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Inland flooding

29% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 47% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

11% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 92% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 75 years in the area

Hail

7% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Strong wind

5% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 94% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

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 Stamps flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Lafayette County.

Disasters that hit Stamps

4 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into StampsDeclared for Lafayette County only

2009

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

$9K to the City of Stamps for repairs

2008

Tropical Storm Ike

$4K to the City of Stamps for repairs

2004

Severe Storms and Flooding

$16K to the City of Stamps for repairs

2000

Severe Winter Ice Storm

$77K to the City of Stamps for repairs

Lafayette 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. Stamps covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Stamps’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Stamps. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

FEMA’s expected losses across Stamps total about $1.6M a year, counting buildings, people and crops.

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.