Flood history / Arkansas
Arkansas
flood claim history.
Across the 28 Arkansas ZIP codes with at least 100 paid claims on file, the National Flood Insurance Program has paid $100.4M on 5,141 claims between 1978 and 2026. ZIP 72301 in Crittenden County carries the most at 794, 15.4% of the state total shown here.
The events driving the most paid claims across these ZIPs are Mid-spring storms (505 claims), Late spring severe storms (188 claims) and Central U.S. April Flooding (88 claims).
24.6% of the claims here that record a rated flood zone were on properties outside the mapped high-risk area — the zone where flood insurance is optional and most owners go without it.
Claim volume tracks how many properties carried flood insurance as much as how often the water came up. A ZIP with a long insured history will out-file a comparable one where few owners were covered, so read each ZIP's own record rather than ranking them against each other.
Every Arkansas ZIP code on file
| ZIP | County | Paid claims | Total paid | Heaviest year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 72301 | Crittenden County | 794 | $10.9M | 1987 208 |
| 72204 | Pulaski County | 302 | $5.3M | 1978 74 |
| 72342 | Phillips County | 301 | $2.0M | 1980 57 |
| 72120 | Pulaski County | 244 | $3.5M | 2009 56 |
| 72401 | Craighead County | 235 | $5.8M | 2016 53 |
| 72450 | Greene County | 229 | $965K | 1990 78 |
| 71603 | Jefferson County | 207 | $2.5M | 1984 33 |
| 71602 | Jefferson County | 204 | $6.6M | 2015 47 |
| 72209 | Pulaski County | 200 | $3.2M | 1978 29 |
| 72455 | Randolph County | 175 | $7.5M | 2017 79 |
| 72205 | Pulaski County | 174 | $1.7M | 1978 49 |
| 72076 | Pulaski County | 161 | $2.9M | 2011 45 |
| 72903 | Sebastian County | 156 | $11.0M | 2019 55 |
| 71901 | Garland County | 154 | $2.8M | 1990 31 |
| 72106 | Faulkner County | 144 | $3.6M | 2011 45 |
| 72901 | Sebastian County | 133 | $3.5M | 2008 22 |
| 71854 | Miller County | 128 | $2.6M | 1998 46 |
| 71654 | Desha County | 121 | $1.8M | 1994 31 |
| 72501 | Independence County | 118 | $1.4M | 2008 40 |
| 72112 | Jackson County | 113 | $1.8M | 2011 20 |
| 72103 | Saline County | 111 | $1.3M | 2009 22 |
| 72390 | Phillips County | 109 | $865K | 1980 14 |
| 72703 | Washington County | 108 | $2.4M | 2011 24 |
| 71653 | Chicot County | 106 | $2.5M | 2011 30 |
| 72032 | Faulkner County | 104 | $2.7M | 2011 37 |
| 72069 | Monroe County | 104 | $3.9M | 2011 64 |
| 72542 | Sharp County | 104 | $3.3M | 2008 45 |
| 72118 | Pulaski County | 102 | $2.0M | 2009 31 |
Only ZIP codes with at least 100 paid claims on file appear here. A ZIP missing from this table has a shorter record, not a clean one.