Cross County, AR: flood risk, in FEMA's own numbers
On FEMA's National Risk Index, Cross County scores at the 39.3th percentile for flood hazard, rated "Relatively Low" — below the national norm for flood hazard. The hazard here is driven by inland rivers and flash flooding rather than the coast — FEMA's model puts a flood event here at about once every 2 years. 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 Cross County
FEMA hasn't published a residential structure count for Cross 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, 1.1% of all residential structures in Cross County carry flood coverage voluntarily or otherwise — relevant because most NFIP claims nationally come from outside the mapped SFHA.
Cross County against the rest of the country
Among the 3144 US counties FEMA scores for flood hazard, Cross County ranks 1971 — 1 being the highest hazard nationally — and 2023 by population among all 3144 counties covered here, where 1 is the largest. About 16,194 people live in Cross County, Arkansas, spread over 616.318 square miles.
Your street may differ from Cross County's average
Across all of Cross County's 7,650 residential structures, 82 carry an NFIP policy today — a county-wide count that still can't tell you one address's own mapped zone.
Where Cross County's figures come from
Every figure on this page traces to a named FEMA dataset, documented in the methodology guide. Cross 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.