Izard County, AR Tornado Risk & Storm Shelter Cost
Izard County, AR: what NOAA's tornado record says
Since 1950, NOAA has logged 26 tornado tracks crossing Izard County - one about every 2.9 years, which lands it in our Elevated band. Nationally, Izard County ranks at the 62nd percentile for tornado frequency. Arkansas has 75 counties in this dataset; Izard County ranks 44 of them by frequency.
Izard County's EF4-5 history
Izard County has 2 violent (EF4-5) tornados 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 Izard County
For a Izard 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
14,291 people live in Izard County, and a tornado outbreak's power loss usually reaches far more of Arkansas than the tracks themselves touch. A portable battery unit is the faster, no-fuel way to bridge that outage.
Read this before you rely on it
This is a county-level figure, not a per-address probability. Izard County covers about 580 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. Izard County has about 14,291 residents.