Natural hazards · Hatfield

Hatfield, AR natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Hatfield comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Hatfield?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Hatfield to be higher than in 74% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding58%Tornadoes11%Ice storms7%Everything else25%

By hazard

What Hatfield faces

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

Inland flooding

58% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 82% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

11% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 83% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 13 years in the area

Ice storms

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 98% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailWinter weatherCold wavesHeat 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 Hatfield flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Polk County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

3storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Hatfield

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into HatfieldDeclared for Polk County only

2009

Severe Storms and Tornadoes

3 households applied for aid $2K aid approved

Polk County has had 20 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and ice storms.

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. Hatfield 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 Hatfield’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Hatfield. 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.