Property Atlas

County hazard profile

Scott, VA

Virginia · pop. 21,551 · FIPS 51169

Very Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Landslide
dominant hazard
$8M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Scott $8M

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 41.95/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (42nd percentile)
Social vulnerabilityVery High 87.79/100
national median ~50 higher than 88% of counties
Community resilienceVery Low 6.2/100
national median ~50 among the lowest nationally

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Scott

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 36 flood-insurance claims totaling $395K in Scott since 1978. The costliest year was 2003 ($171K paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1978: $3,575 paid 1979: $786 paid 1984: $1,193 paid 1991: $605 paid 1994: $209 paid 2001: $33,902 paid 2002: $148,351 paid 2003: $171,109 paid 2010: $5,327 paid 2013: $2,989 paid 2015: $9,438 paid 2019: $0 paid 2020: $1,125 paid 2024: $2,742 paid 2025: $13,365 paid 2003 · $171K 1978 2025
$395K
total paid
$10,964
average claim
$93K
largest single claim
39%
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 Scott, VA and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Scott 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.