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County hazard profile

Alexandria, VA

Virginia · pop. 159,467 · FIPS 51510

Relatively Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Strong Wind
dominant hazard
$40M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Alexandria $40M

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 73.7/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (74th percentile)
Social vulnerabilityVery Low 15.43/100
national median ~50 among the lowest nationally
Community resilienceRelatively Moderate 45.67/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (46th percentile)

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Alexandria

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 404 flood-insurance claims totaling $7.2M in Alexandria since 1978. The costliest year was 2019 ($2.9M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1978: $18,951 paid 1979: $36,498 paid 1980: $0 paid 1982: $8,972 paid 1983: $0 paid 1985: $23,733 paid 1986: $2,886 paid 1987: $210 paid 1989: $0 paid 1993: $0 paid 1996: $111,729 paid 1998: $0 paid 1999: $3,876 paid 2000: $2,239 paid 2001: $0 paid 2003: $1,587,341 paid 2004: $0 paid 2005: $0 paid 2006: $1,126,206 paid 2007: $0 paid 2008: $48,303 paid 2009: $4,424 paid 2010: $0 paid 2011: $28,961 paid 2012: $0 paid 2013: $1,465 paid 2014: $1,239 paid 2015: $35,811 paid 2017: $0 paid 2018: $25,789 paid 2019: $2,911,825 paid 2020: $872,002 paid 2021: $327,022 paid 2022: $10,877 paid 2023: $4,280 paid 2024: $0 paid 2026: $0 paid 2019 · $2.9M 1978 2026
$7.2M
total paid
$17,809
average claim
$473K
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 Alexandria, VA and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Alexandria 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.