Natural hazards · Natural Steps

Natural Steps, AR natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Natural Steps?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Natural Steps to be higher than in 82% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding66%Tornadoes16%Earthquakes6%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Natural Steps 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

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

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

16% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 93% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 16 years in the area

Earthquakes

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 77% of U.S. places

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

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 Natural Steps flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Pulaski County.

Disasters that hit Natural Steps

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Natural StepsDeclared for Pulaski County only

Pulaski County has had 28 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. Natural Steps 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 Natural Steps’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Natural Steps. 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.