Natural hazards · Blairs

Blairs, VA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Blairs comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Blairs?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Blairs to be higher than in 10% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding63%Hurricanes8%Tornadoes6%Everything else23%

By hazard

What Blairs faces

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

Inland flooding

63% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 23% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Hurricanes

8% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 69% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 13 years in the area

Tornadoes

6% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 47% of U.S. places

Lower here

HailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Blairs flood?

FEMA's records show no paid flood insurance claims in Blairs.

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Pittsylvania County.

Disasters that hit Blairs

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Blairs itself: aid to households, or repair grants to Blairs.

Brought FEMA money into BlairsDeclared for Pittsylvania County only

2003

Hurricane Isabel

3 households applied for aid $2K aid approved

Pittsylvania County has had 23 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe 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. Blairs is smaller than a census tract, so it shares the figures of the tract around its center.

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

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.