Drew County, AR Tornado Risk & Storm Shelter Cost
Drew County's tornado history, by the numbers
Since 1957, NOAA has logged 21 tornado tracks crossing Drew County - one about every 3.6 years, which lands it in our Moderate band. Nationally, Drew County ranks at the 52nd percentile for tornado frequency. Among 75 Arkansas counties in this dataset, Drew County ranks 58 for how often a tornado touches down.
Drew County's EF4-5 history
Drew County's record has no EF4-5 tornado - its 21 tracks split 12 weak and 9 significant. That does not rule one out in the future, only that none has been recorded since 1950.
What a storm shelter costs near Drew County
For a Drew 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
Power loss after a tornado outbreak in Arkansas often reaches homes the storm itself never touched. A battery-backup unit covers the outage without the fuel and venting a generator needs.
Read this before you rely on it
This is a county-level figure, not a per-address probability. Drew County covers about 829 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. Drew County has about 16,935 residents.