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Craighead County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2026 · 8th highest paid in Arkansas
Claims
410
Total paid
$7.9M
Average / claim
$19K
Building / contents
$5.9M / $2.0M
Paid by decade
1970s$31K · 20 claims
1980s$89K · 56 claims
1990s$659K · 81 claims
2000s$2.8M · 126 claims
2010s$3.6M · 108 claims
2020s$694K · 19 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2016 | $3.2M | 73 claims |
| 2002 | $1.9M | 32 claims |
| 1997 | $552K | 50 claims |
| 2023 | $445K | 6 claims |
| 2009 | $411K | 35 claims |
Full disaster history for Craighead County →
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Source: FEMA OpenFEMA, NFIP Redacted Claims v3 (OpenFEMA NfipClaims v3, retrieved 2026-09) — dollars actually paid on closed claims, summed from individual claim transactions. This is a record of the past. It is not a flood-risk forecast, an insurance rating, or a judgment about any specific property. For current risk see FEMA's Flood Map Service Center and National Risk Index.