Natural hazards · Taylor

Taylor, AR natural hazards

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

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Taylor to be higher than in 62% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and ice storms.

Inland flooding23%Ice storms17%Tornadoes17%Heat waves12%Strong wind11%Hail8%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Taylor faces

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

Inland flooding

23% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 33% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Ice storms

17% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

17% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 68% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 9 years in the area

Heat waves

12% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 19 times a year in the area

Strong wind

11% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Hail

8% 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 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 Taylor flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Columbia County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

2storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Taylor

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into TaylorDeclared for Columbia County only

2000

Severe Winter Ice Storm

$34K to the City of Taylor for repairs

Columbia County has had 18 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. Taylor 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 Taylor’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Taylor. 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.