Fulton County, AR flood risk explained
Flood hazard in Fulton County sits at the 45.6th national percentile, below the national norm for flood hazard; driven by inland rivers and flash flooding rather than the coast — FEMA's model puts a flood event here at about 1.1 times a year. County-wide, not parcel-specific: FEMA's real flood-zone map is queried live, never shipped as a download.
Fulton County's flood-insurance compliance gap
FEMA's own figures for Fulton County report more NFIP policies in the mapped flood zone than FEMA's own count of residential structures there, which produces a compliance rate over 100% — a data problem on FEMA's side, not evidence that everyone here is over-insured. See the data quality guide for how widespread this is. Looking beyond the mandated zone, 0.2% of all residential structures in Fulton County carry flood coverage voluntarily or otherwise — relevant because most NFIP claims nationally come from outside the mapped SFHA.
How Fulton County compares nationally
Among the 3144 US counties FEMA scores for flood hazard, Fulton County ranks 1772 — 1 being the highest hazard nationally — and 2250 by population among all 3144 counties covered here, where 1 is the largest. About 12,546 people live in Fulton County, Arkansas, spread over 617.994 square miles.
Checking a specific address in Fulton County
Across all of Fulton County's 6,155 residential structures, 13 carry an NFIP policy today — a county-wide count that still can't tell you one address's own mapped zone.
Where Fulton County's figures come from
Every figure on this page traces to a named FEMA dataset, documented in the methodology guide. Fulton 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.