Cleburne County, AR Tornado Risk & Storm Shelter Cost
Cleburne County's tornado history, by the numbers
Since 1955, NOAA has logged 30 tornado tracks crossing Cleburne County - one about every 2.5 years, which lands it in our Elevated band. Nationally, Cleburne County ranks at the 69th percentile for tornado frequency. Within Arkansas alone, Cleburne County ranks 35 of 75 counties for tornado frequency.
Cleburne County's EF4-5 history
Cleburne County has 1 violent (EF4-5) tornado on record. FEMA centers its safe-room case on exactly this strength, not on how often a county gets touched - a hardened room is the difference between a code-built house surviving an EF4-5 or not.
What a storm shelter costs near Cleburne County
For a Cleburne County homeowner, budget $2,890-$13,280 for a shelter or safe room ($7,645 typical) - this pass found no Arkansas-specific rebate on top of FEMA's underlying 75% national cost-share program.
The outage nobody plans for
A direct hit is not required for Cleburne County to lose power - outbreak-wide outages across Arkansas regularly reach homes and businesses well outside the actual tracks. A battery bank covers that gap without a generator's fuel and venting needs.
Read this before you rely on it
This is a county-level figure, not a per-address probability. Cleburne County covers about 554 square miles, so a single touch here counts the same as a single touch in a county a fraction of that size. Pre-radar-era records (before the 1990s) are also documented by NOAA as undercounting weaker tornadoes in sparsely-instrumented areas. Cleburne County has about 25,646 residents.