Property Atlas

County hazard profile

Newport News, VA

Virginia · pop. 186,209 · FIPS 51700

Relatively Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Hurricane
dominant hazard
$32M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Newport News $32M

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 72.23/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (72nd percentile)
Social vulnerabilityRelatively Low 36.2/100
national median ~50 lower than most counties (36th percentile)
Community resilienceRelatively High 65.94/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (66th percentile)

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Newport News

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 1,064 flood-insurance claims totaling $23.9M in Newport News since 1978. The costliest year was 2012 ($5.9M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1978: $5,234 paid 1979: $26,227 paid 1980: $5,059 paid 1981: $21,210 paid 1982: $94,787 paid 1984: $0 paid 1985: $941 paid 1987: $25,500 paid 1988: $0 paid 1989: $0 paid 1990: $0 paid 1992: $10,968 paid 1996: $0 paid 1997: $1,615 paid 1998: $61,450 paid 1999: $1,030,497 paid 2000: $3,087 paid 2001: $0 paid 2002: $0 paid 2003: $2,507,680 paid 2004: $81,731 paid 2005: $14,262 paid 2006: $2,052,969 paid 2009: $3,223,389 paid 2010: $126,394 paid 2011: $1,174,258 paid 2012: $5,866,767 paid 2013: $0 paid 2014: $3,465,865 paid 2015: $60,486 paid 2016: $3,597,647 paid 2017: $0 paid 2018: $214,952 paid 2019: $0 paid 2020: $123,884 paid 2021: $29,858 paid 2022: $18,505 paid 2023: $0 paid 2024: $0 paid 2025: $78,716 paid 2026: $0 paid 2012 · $5.9M 1978 2026
$23.9M
total paid
$22,485
average claim
$325K
largest single claim
66%
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 Newport News, VA and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Newport News 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.