Natural hazards · Gateway

Gateway, AR natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Gateway comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Gateway?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Gateway to be higher than in 56% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding66%Ice storms12%Heat waves5%Everything else17%

By hazard

What Gateway faces

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

Inland flooding

66% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 68% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Ice storms

12% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Heat waves

5% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 75% of U.S. places

Recorded about 10 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailWinter weatherCold wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingDroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Gateway flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Benton County.

Disasters that hit Gateway

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for Benton County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Gateway itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into GatewayDeclared for Benton County only

Benton County has had 21 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. Gateway 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 Gateway’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Gateway. 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.