About Little Rock Storm Shelters

What this site is

Little Rock Storm Shelters is a lead referral service. We are not a contractor, we do not manufacture shelters and we do not install them. What we do is publish straight answers about storm shelters in central Arkansas and connect people who want one with an independent, licensed and insured local provider who does the work.

That is stated in the footer of every page on this site, and it is stated here at the top because you should know what you are dealing with before you pick up the phone rather than after.

How it works

• You call or fill in the form. Roughly a minute. The useful details are where you are, how many people the shelter needs to hold, and whether the house is on a slab.
• Your details go to a local installer. One that covers your address and does the kind of work you are asking about — residential, or commercial if that is what you need.
• They come out and quote it. On site, because slab thickness, groundwater and equipment access cannot be assessed from a desk.
• You deal with them directly from there. The contract, the work and the warranty are between you and the installer.

Why the content on this site is written the way it is

Most storm shelter pages are product brochures. This one tries to be useful even if you never call, which means saying some things a brochure would not:

• There is no Arkansas rebate or tax credit. The program ended in 2016 and the 2025 bill died in committee. Plenty of pages still imply otherwise. Ours sets out the actual position.
• Underground is not automatically safer. Both types meet the same standards. The real trade-offs are stairs, drainage and how fast people get inside.
• “FEMA approved” is not a thing. FEMA does not certify shelter products, and a company using that phrase is telling you something about itself.
• Free public safe rooms exist in Pulaski County, and if a private shelter is out of reach we would rather you knew about them.

Every local fact on this site — storm tracks, dates, casualty figures, standards, program status — is checked against the National Weather Service, the Encyclopedia of Arkansas, the Arkansas Division of Emergency Management, FEMA, the ICC and the National Storm Shelter Association. Where something could not be verified, it is not on the site.