Searcy County, Arkansas: hazard history

FEMA declared 26 disasters that named Searcy County between 1969 and 2026.

Most recent declarations

• EM-3636 2026 · Winter Storm · Severe Winter Storm
• DR-4873 2025 · Flood · Severe Storms, Tornadoes, And Flooding
• EM-3627 2025 · Severe Storm · Severe Storms, Tornadoes, And Flooding
• DR-4700 2023 · Winter Storm · Severe Winter Storm
• EM-3541 2020 · Hurricane · Hurricane Laura
• EM-3461 2020 · Biological · Covid-19
• DR-4518 2020 · Biological · Covid-19 Pandemic
• DR-4441 2019 · Flood · Severe Storms And Flooding
• DR-4318 2017 · Severe Storm · Severe Storms, Tornadoes, Straight-line Winds, And Flooding
• DR-4254 2015 · Severe Storm · Severe Storms, Tornadoes, Straight-line Winds, And Flooding

Not counted above: 6 statewide declarations, which covered every county in Arkansas. A declaration is a decision to send federal help, not a measure of how bad an event was. Records run from 1953. Source: FEMA OpenFEMA Disaster Declarations Summaries.

Records start in 1996. Damage is NOAA's estimate at the time, in nominal dollars, and is often rounded; it is not insurance claims data. A storm that crossed two NOAA zones in this county is recorded, and counted, once per zone.

NOAA storm event records in Searcy County each year. The busiest year was 2011, with 32 records.

Years with no record are left out of the table, not shown as zero.

Costliest records

1. Ice Storm · Jan 26, 2009$50.0M
   NOAA name: SEARCY · NOAA record 143437
2. Flood · May 1, 2011$3.0M
   NOAA name: SEARCY · NOAA record 309103
3. Thunderstorm Wind · Mar 1, 1997$2.0M
   NOAA name: SEARCY · NOAA record 5592916
4. Flash Flood · Mar 18, 2008$1.2M
   NOAA name: SEARCY · NOAA record 88910
5. Flood · Apr 26, 2011$750K
   NOAA name: SEARCY · NOAA record 305242

Each line is one NOAA record, linked to its page at NOAA. One large storm can appear more than once if NOAA recorded it in several zones of this county. Dollars are nominal.

No National Flood Insurance Program claims are on record for Searcy County.

A count of claims, not a rate: NFIP publishes no count of insured homes beside it, and most flood damage is uninsured. Nominal dollars. Records run from 1978 to 2024; claims filed without a county code are not on any county page. Source: FEMA OpenFEMA FIMA NFIP Redacted Claims.

A hazard vulnerability analysis rates each hazard for probability, impact, preparedness and response. Probability is the one column the county’s federal record can fill — NCEI storm events from 1996 to 2026 and FEMA declarations naming the county — and this is what it says for a facility here, on the 0–3 scale of the all-hazards structure surveyors expect. The other six columns are the facility’s own judgment about its building, and Calchis leaves them blank.

A dash means the record does not speak to that hazard; it is not a zero. Whether a finished document satisfies the CMS Emergency Preparedness Rule is the facility’s finding and its surveyor’s. Complete the HVA for a facility in Searcy County — the technological, human and hazardous-materials rows, the six facility columns, the approval and the printed document — or read the sample analysis on that page first.

• Every figure is counted from public federal records held by Calchis: NOAA NCEI Storm Events, FEMA OpenFEMA Disaster Declarations, and FEMA NFIP claims. Nothing is modeled or estimated.
• NOAA files some events by county and others by forecast zone, and names both. Records are counted as Searcy County when their NOAA name is this county's name, alone or with a word like “Coastal” or “Inland” in front. The county codes NOAA also publishes have not been loaded for Arkansas yet; when they are, this page will count by code instead, and some counties' records will grow. NOAA names counted here: SEARCY, SEARCY COUNTY LOWER ELEVATIONS. Zones named for something else, such as a mountain range or two counties at once, are left out: 0% of Arkansas's NOAA records.
• Counts last rebuilt from the source records on Sep 15, 2026.