Natural hazards · Wilmar

Wilmar, AR natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Wilmar comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate 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 Wilmar?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Wilmar to be higher than in 52% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding26%Tornadoes19%Earthquakes19%Heat waves15%Strong wind9%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Wilmar faces

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

Inland flooding

26% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

19% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 5 years in the area

Earthquakes

19% of expected damage

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

Heat waves

15% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 20 times a year in the area

Strong wind

9% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter 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 Wilmar flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Drew County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

1storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Wilmar

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into WilmarDeclared for Drew County only

2009

Severe Storms and Flooding

$2K to the City of Wilmar for repairs

Drew County has had 16 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and winter 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. Wilmar 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 Wilmar’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Wilmar. 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.