Natural hazards · Fulton

Fulton, AR natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Fulton comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. 3 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

FEMA National Risk Index, December 2025 · OpenFEMA claims, aid & declarations

Expected damage

How exposed is Fulton?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Fulton to be higher than in 57% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and ice storms.

Inland flooding37%Ice storms17%Tornadoes15%Hail10%Strong wind5%Everything else17%

By hazard

What Fulton faces

Each hazard’s share of the damage FEMA expects here, and how that compares with the rest of the country.

Inland flooding

37% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 25% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Ice storms

17% of expected damage

Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Tornadoes

15% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 89% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 8 years in the area

Hail

10% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 94% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Strong wind

5% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 92% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightningDrought

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic activity

Flood risk changes street by street. Check a specific address on FEMA’s flood map, and ask about flood insurance before you buy.

Flood insurance claims

Does Fulton flood?

FEMA's records show no paid flood insurance claims in Fulton.

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Fulton isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.

Insurance rates: Hempstead County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

1storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Fulton

3 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Fulton itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the Town of Fulton.

Brought FEMA money into FultonDeclared for Hempstead County only

2025

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

$170K to the Town of Fulton for repairs

2015

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, Straight-Line Winds, and Flooding

2 households applied for aid $1K aid approved $9K to the Town of Fulton for repairs

2000

Severe Winter Ice Storm

$27K to the Town of Fulton for repairs

Hempstead County has had 22 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

About these numbers

How to read this page

An average, not a forecastFEMA’s National Risk Index estimates the damage 18 kinds of natural hazards cause in a typical year, from decades of records and models. A quiet decade can follow a bad year.

Compared by rate“Higher than N%” compares yearly damage as a share of what’s here, so a big city isn’t rated riskier just for having more buildings. Fulton is smaller than a census tract, so it shares the figures of the tract around its center.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Fulton’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Fulton. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

Sources: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025); OpenFEMA: NFIP redacted claims, multiple-loss properties, community status book and residential penetration rates, housing assistance (owners and renters), public assistance funded projects, hazard mitigation properties and disaster declarations. Census tracts: U.S. Census Bureau.