Natural hazards · Basye

Basye, VA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Basye comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 4 claims here since 1996.

FEMA National Risk Index, December 2025 · OpenFEMA claims, aid & declarations

Expected damage

How exposed is Basye?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Basye to be higher than in 78% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding82%Hurricanes7%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Basye faces

Each hazard’s share of the damage FEMA expects here, and how that compares with the rest of the country.

Inland flooding

82% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 91% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Hurricanes

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 82% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 17 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtAvalanches

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingTsunamisVolcanic activity

Flood risk changes street by street. Check a specific address on FEMA’s flood map, and ask about flood insurance before you buy.

Flood insurance claims

Does Basye flood?

Every paid claim on a federal flood insurance policy in Basye, from FEMA’s records.

4paid claims since 1996

$24Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19962026

Biggest named events

Hurricane Fran: 1 claim, $2K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Basye isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.

Insurance rates: Shenandoah County.

Disasters that hit Basye

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for Shenandoah County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Basye itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into BasyeDeclared for Shenandoah County only

Shenandoah County has had 21 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often winter storms and hurricanes.

About these numbers

How to read this page

An average, not a forecastFEMA’s National Risk Index estimates the damage 18 kinds of natural hazards cause in a typical year, from decades of records and models. A quiet decade can follow a bad year.

Compared by rate“Higher than N%” compares yearly damage as a share of what’s here, so a big city isn’t rated riskier just for having more buildings. Basye covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Basye’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Basye. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

FEMA’s expected losses across Basye total about $1.9M a year, counting buildings, people and crops.

Sources: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025); OpenFEMA: NFIP redacted claims, multiple-loss properties, community status book and residential penetration rates, housing assistance (owners and renters), public assistance funded projects, hazard mitigation properties and disaster declarations. Census tracts: U.S. Census Bureau.