Van Buren County, AR flood risk explained
Flood hazard in Van Buren County sits at the 47.9th 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 once every 1 years. That's a county-wide figure, not a per-address one — FEMA's parcel maps are a live lookup, not a bulk file.
Who actually carries the flood insurance FEMA requires
FEMA hasn't published a residential structure count for Van Buren 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, 0.2% of all residential structures in Van Buren County carry flood coverage voluntarily or otherwise — relevant because most NFIP claims nationally come from outside the mapped SFHA.
How Van Buren County compares nationally
Among the 3144 US counties FEMA scores for flood hazard, Van Buren County ranks 1700 — 1 being the highest hazard nationally — and 2028 by population among all 3144 counties covered here, where 1 is the largest. Van Buren County, Arkansas covers 709.571 square miles and counts roughly 16,152 residents.
Your street may differ from Van Buren County's average
FEMA counts 9,490 residential structures in Van Buren County overall, 18 of them carrying some form of NFIP coverage — but a lender or insurer cares about one parcel, not that county total.
Where Van Buren County's figures come from
Every figure on this page traces to a named FEMA dataset, documented in the methodology guide. Van Buren 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.