Property Atlas

County hazard profile

Norton, VA

Virginia · pop. 3,687 · FIPS 51720

Very Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Landslide
dominant hazard
$1M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Norton $1M

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 1.56/100
national median ~50 among the lowest nationally
Social vulnerabilityVery High 85.27/100
national median ~50 higher than 85% of counties
Community resilienceRelatively Moderate 47.42/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (47th percentile)

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Norton

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 46 flood-insurance claims totaling $303K in Norton since 1982. The costliest year was 2003 ($89K paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1982: $18,404 paid 1984: $4,471 paid 1994: $2,921 paid 2002: $86,704 paid 2003: $89,218 paid 2015: $25,412 paid 2016: $4,380 paid 2018: $18,371 paid 2020: $7,141 paid 2022: $6,901 paid 2023: $4,526 paid 2024: $27,528 paid 2025: $7,250 paid 2003 · $89K 1982 2025
$303K
total paid
$6,592
average claim
$52K
largest single claim
46%
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 Norton, VA and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Norton 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.