Property Atlas

County hazard profile

Dickenson, VA

Virginia · pop. 14,122 · FIPS 51051

Very Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Landslide
dominant hazard
$5M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

Expected annual loss · all 3,232 U.S. counties

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Dickenson $5M

A real dollar distribution: most counties sit far below a handful of high-exposure ones. A FEMA model of annual loss, not a record of disasters.

FEMA national percentile scores

FEMA/CDC score each county 0–100 against all others — the score is the national rank (RATING). Higher risk and vulnerability are worse; higher resilience is better.

FEMA risk indexVery Low 17.94/100
national median ~50 among the lowest nationally
Social vulnerabilityRelatively High 71.34/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (71st percentile)
Community resilienceVery Low 4.71/100
national median ~50 among the lowest nationally

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Dickenson

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 118 flood-insurance claims totaling $514K in Dickenson since 1978. The costliest year was 1984 ($220K paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1978: $3,420 paid 1979: $0 paid 1980: $0 paid 1982: $10,532 paid 1984: $220,301 paid 1987: $8,276 paid 1991: $0 paid 1992: $31,563 paid 1994: $14,810 paid 1996: $244 paid 1997: $27,500 paid 1998: $44,438 paid 1999: $0 paid 2002: $6,225 paid 2003: $54,115 paid 2004: $0 paid 2013: $3,607 paid 2015: $30,921 paid 2017: $5,977 paid 2025: $51,671 paid 1984 · $220K 1978 2025
$514K
total paid
$4,353
average claim
$39K
largest single claim
36%
in high-risk flood zones (A/V)

RECORDED — these are actual paid NFIP claims (a redacted census from OpenFEMA), not a model. They are the realized counterpart to the FEMA risk score above: one is what happened and got paid, the other is what a model predicts.

Scope: these are flood-insurance claims, so they undercount flooding where owners were uninsured — read this as "what NFIP paid here," not "every flood." County-level totals, not a per-property or per-address verdict. Verify a specific address and buy coverage at FloodSmart.gov; the underlying data is OpenFEMA NFIP Redacted Claims.

What these figures mean

  • RATING — the FEMA risk score, expected loss, social vulnerability, and resilience are FEMA/CDC models, not records of disasters that happened. The 0–100 scores are already national percentiles.
  • MEASURED — population is a recorded census figure.
  • COMPUTED — the county's rank within the dollar-loss distribution is our placement over the 3,232 counties.
  • CONTEXT — the note below is framing, not a measurement.

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What this is — and is not

This is FEMA/CDC modeled hazard exposure for Dickenson, VA and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Dickenson is a good or bad place to live — hazard exposure is not place quality, and a county can't opt out of its geography. It is not a per-property or per-address risk assessment, not a prediction of any specific disaster, and not insurance advice. For site-specific risk use a per-property assessment; for the underlying model see FEMA National Risk Index.