How much flood risk does Newton County actually carry?
Newton County lands at the 21.3th 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 1.1 times a year. County-wide, not parcel-specific: FEMA's real flood-zone map is queried live, never shipped as a download.
Mandatory flood insurance compliance in Newton County
Newton 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 Newton County, not just the ones FEMA mandates, 0% carry an NFIP policy — most flood damage nationally happens outside the mapped high-risk zone, so that broader number matters too.
Newton County against the rest of the country
Newton County sits at rank 2516 of 3144 counties on FEMA's flood hazard scale (1 is worst) and rank 2659 of 3144 by population (1 is biggest). Newton County, Arkansas covers 821.076 square miles and counts roughly 7,026 residents.
Checking a specific address in Newton County
Across all of Newton County's 2,910 residential structures, 0 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 Newton County's numbers. See the data quality guide for why Newton County, like hundreds of other counties, doesn't get a clean compliance percentage.