Natural hazards · Wickes

Wickes, AR natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Wickes comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. 2 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Wickes?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Wickes to be higher than in 49% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding45%Tornadoes14%Ice storms9%Hail7%Wildfire6%Heat waves6%Everything else14%

By hazard

What Wickes faces

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

Inland flooding

45% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 43% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

14% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 13 years in the area

Ice storms

9% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 98% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Hail

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 89% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Wildfire

6% of expected damage

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

Heat waves

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 80% of U.S. places

Recorded about 15 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesWinter weatherCold wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

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 Wickes flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Polk County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

2storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Wickes

2 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into WickesDeclared for Polk County only

2009

Severe Storms and Tornadoes

1 household applied for aid

2000

Severe Winter Ice Storm

$21K to the Town of Wickes for repairs

Polk County has had 20 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and ice storms.

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