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Natural hazards · Gravette

Gravette, AR natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Gravette comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 2 claims here since 2013. 9 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

How exposed is Gravette?

57
Moderate
vs. U.S. communities

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

Inland flooding64%Ice storms8%Cold waves6%Heat waves5%Everything else16%
By hazard

What Gravette faces

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

Inland flooding

64% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 70% of U.S. places
Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Ice storms

8% of expected damage
Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places
Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Cold waves

6% of expected damage
Below average · higher than 45% 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 weatherWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong 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 Gravette flood?

Every paid claim on a federal flood insurance policy in Gravette, from FEMA’s records.

2paid claims since 2013
$21Kpaid to owners
1homes flooded more than once
20132026

Biggest named events

  • Late spring severe storms: 1 claim, $16K

Homes that flooded again and again

■ FEMA “severe repetitive loss” (0) ■ flooded 2+ times

of homes in flood zones
are insured
of all homes
are insured
No community discount. Gravette 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.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

5storm safe rooms built
Disasters that hit Gravette

9 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into GravetteDeclared for Benton County only
2024

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

25 households applied for aid $20K aid approved
2017

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

1 household applied for aid
2015

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

7 households applied for aid $4K aid approved $133K to the City of Gravette for repairs
2013

Severe Storms and Flooding

$123K to the City of Gravette for repairs
2011

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Associated Flooding

5 households applied for aid $14K aid approved
2008

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

6 households applied for aid $6K aid approved
2004

Severe Storms and Flooding

$2K to the City of Gravette for repairs
2003

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

1 household applied for aid $221 aid approved
2000

Severe Winter Ice Storm

$5K to the City of Gravette for repairs
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. Gravette 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 Gravette’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Gravette. 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.

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