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County hazard profile

Tazewell, VA

Virginia · pop. 40,399 · FIPS 51185

Relatively Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Landslide
dominant hazard
$15M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Tazewell $15M

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 indexRelatively Low 60.18/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (60th percentile)
Social vulnerabilityRelatively High 79.68/100
national median ~50 higher than 80% of counties
Community resilienceRelatively Low 20.01/100
national median ~50 among the lowest nationally

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Tazewell

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 480 flood-insurance claims totaling $7.6M in Tazewell since 1978. The costliest year was 2025 ($2.0M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1978: $189,236 paid 1979: $5,500 paid 1980: $154,530 paid 1981: $935 paid 1982: $16,225 paid 1984: $170,607 paid 1985: $1,593 paid 1987: $10,061 paid 1989: $5,467 paid 1991: $3,320 paid 1992: $0 paid 1993: $0 paid 1994: $30,897 paid 1995: $1,851 paid 1996: $26,776 paid 1998: $51,954 paid 2001: $1,031,002 paid 2002: $147,517 paid 2003: $891,033 paid 2004: $260,329 paid 2005: $0 paid 2006: $0 paid 2007: $0 paid 2009: $284,466 paid 2010: $50,491 paid 2011: $28,681 paid 2012: $18,840 paid 2013: $27,299 paid 2015: $513,728 paid 2018: $1,459 paid 2019: $0 paid 2020: $1,044,111 paid 2021: $9,504 paid 2022: $59,096 paid 2023: $262,365 paid 2024: $321,872 paid 2025: $2,007,681 paid 2025 · $2.0M 1978 2025
$7.6M
total paid
$15,893
average claim
$500K
largest single claim
54%
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 Tazewell, VA and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Tazewell 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.