Property Atlas

County hazard profile

Falls Church, VA

Virginia · pop. 14,658 · FIPS 51610

Very Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Hurricane
dominant hazard
$3M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Falls Church $3M

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 1.62/100
national median ~50 among the lowest nationally
Social vulnerabilityVery Low 10.62/100
national median ~50 among the lowest nationally
Community resilienceVery High 98.25/100
national median ~50 among the highest nationally

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Falls Church

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 74 flood-insurance claims totaling $472K in Falls Church since 1978. The costliest year was 2019 ($210K paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1978: $2,129 paid 1979: $4,496 paid 1996: $0 paid 2001: $9,301 paid 2003: $0 paid 2006: $12,650 paid 2008: $6,713 paid 2010: $0 paid 2011: $162,038 paid 2013: $2,763 paid 2014: $0 paid 2015: $210 paid 2018: $14,234 paid 2019: $210,293 paid 2020: $41,828 paid 2023: $0 paid 2025: $5,069 paid 2019 · $210K 1978 2025
$472K
total paid
$6,375
average claim
$42K
largest single claim
45%
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 Falls Church, VA and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Falls Church 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.