Property Atlas

County hazard profile

Richmond, VA

Virginia · pop. 8,918 · FIPS 51159

Very Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Drought
dominant hazard
$4M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Richmond $4M

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 10.43/100
national median ~50 among the lowest nationally
Social vulnerabilityRelatively High 73.06/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (73rd percentile)
Community resilienceRelatively High 63.2/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (63rd percentile)

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Richmond

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 56 flood-insurance claims totaling $1.3M in Richmond since 1985. The costliest year was 2006 ($523K paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1985: $7,386 paid 1991: $2,423 paid 1996: $23,228 paid 1997: $3,160 paid 1998: $7,052 paid 2003: $514,246 paid 2004: $30,000 paid 2006: $523,025 paid 2008: $10,577 paid 2009: $39,088 paid 2011: $26,925 paid 2015: $64,628 paid 2019: $42,916 paid 2021: $26,435 paid 2023: $2,230 paid 2006 · $523K 1985 2023
$1.3M
total paid
$23,631
average claim
$119K
largest single claim
41%
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 Richmond, VA and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Richmond 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.