How much flood risk does Bradley County actually carry?
Bradley County lands at the 24.5th percentile of FEMA's National Risk Index for flooding, "Very Low" territory — among the lowest flood hazard in the country — with the hazard driven by inland rivers and flash flooding rather than the coast — FEMA's model puts a flood event here at about 1.2 times a year. This describes the county, not any one street — FEMA only publishes exact parcel zones through a live map service.
Who actually carries the flood insurance FEMA requires
Bradley County is one of the counties where FEMA's own denominator for mandated flood-zone structures is missing, so no compliance rate is shown rather than a guessed one — the data quality guide covers how common this is. Across all residential structures in Bradley County, not just the ones FEMA mandates, 0.3% carry an NFIP policy — most flood damage nationally happens outside the mapped high-risk zone, so that broader number matters too.
Where Bradley County ranks
Bradley County sits at rank 2418 of 3144 counties on FEMA's flood hazard scale (1 is worst) and rank 2411 of 3144 by population (1 is biggest). Bradley County, Arkansas is home to about 9,935 people across 649.167 square miles of land.
Checking a specific address in Bradley County
Across all of Bradley County's 5,309 residential structures, 17 carry an NFIP policy today — a county-wide count that still can't tell you one address's own mapped zone.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly which FEMA and Census tables feed Bradley County's numbers. See the data quality guide for why Bradley County, like hundreds of other counties, doesn't get a clean compliance percentage.