Craighead County, AR flood risk explained
Flood hazard in Craighead County sits at the 78.8th national percentile, a middling flood hazard by national standards; driven by inland rivers and flash flooding rather than the coast — FEMA's model puts a flood event here at about 2.5 times a year. That's a county-wide figure, not a per-address one — FEMA's parcel maps are a live lookup, not a bulk file.
Mandatory flood insurance compliance in Craighead County
FEMA hasn't published a residential structure count for Craighead County's mapped flood zone, so a reliable mandatory-compliance percentage can't be computed here — see the data quality guide for why this gap exists for roughly a quarter of US counties. Looking beyond the mandated zone, 2% of all residential structures in Craighead County carry flood coverage voluntarily or otherwise — relevant because most NFIP claims nationally come from outside the mapped SFHA.
Craighead County against the rest of the country
Among the 3144 US counties FEMA scores for flood hazard, Craighead County ranks 695 — 1 being the highest hazard nationally — and 549 by population among all 3144 counties covered here, where 1 is the largest. Craighead County, Arkansas is home to about 115,852 people across 707.167 square miles of land.
Checking a specific address in Craighead County
FEMA counts 35,700 residential structures in Craighead County overall, 725 of them carrying some form of NFIP coverage — but a lender or insurer cares about one parcel, not that county total.
Where Craighead County's figures come from
Every figure on this page traces to a named FEMA dataset, documented in the methodology guide. Craighead County's compliance figure is one of the ones affected by FEMA's incomplete denominator data — the data quality guide explains what that means and how many counties it touches.