Natural hazards · Wooster

Wooster, AR natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Wooster comes from tornadoes, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 2019. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Wooster?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Wooster to be higher than in 67% of U.S. communities, mostly from tornadoes and inland flooding.

Tornadoes32%Inland flooding27%Earthquakes19%Heat waves6%Ice storms6%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Wooster faces

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

Tornadoes

32% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 53 years in the area

Inland flooding

27% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 56% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

19% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 84% of U.S. places

Heat waves

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 70% of U.S. places

Recorded about 18 times a year in the area

Ice storms

6% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailWinter 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 Wooster flood?

Every paid claim on a federal flood insurance policy in Wooster, from FEMA’s records.

1paid claims since 2019

$10Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20192026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Faulkner County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

3storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Wooster

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into WoosterDeclared for Faulkner County only

2019

Severe Storms and Flooding

2 households applied for aid $4K aid approved

Faulkner County has had 24 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. Wooster covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Wooster’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Wooster. 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 Wooster total about $2.2M 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.