How much flood risk does Pike County actually carry?
Pike County lands at the 39.9th percentile of FEMA's National Risk Index for flooding, "Relatively Low" territory — below the national norm for flood hazard — 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. 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
Pike 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 Pike County, not just the ones FEMA mandates, 0.4% carry an NFIP policy — most flood damage nationally happens outside the mapped high-risk zone, so that broader number matters too.
Pike County against the rest of the country
Pike County sits at rank 1954 of 3144 counties on FEMA's flood hazard scale (1 is worst) and rank 2405 of 3144 by population (1 is biggest). Pike County, Arkansas covers 600.337 square miles and counts roughly 10,027 residents.
Checking a specific address in Pike County
Across all of Pike County's 6,189 residential structures, 22 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 Pike County's numbers. See the data quality guide for why Pike County, like hundreds of other counties, doesn't get a clean compliance percentage.