Natural hazards · Braddock

Braddock, VA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Braddock comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 7 claims here since 2012.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Braddock?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Braddock to be higher than in 33% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding78%Hurricanes7%Everything else14%

By hazard

What Braddock faces

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

Inland flooding

78% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 57% of U.S. places

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Hurricanes

7% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 74% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 10 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingDroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Braddock flood?

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

7paid claims since 2012

$46Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20122026

Biggest named events

Hurricane Sandy: 1 claim, $5K
Hurricane Ida: 1 claim, $16K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Fairfax County.

Disasters that hit Braddock

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into BraddockDeclared for Fairfax County only

Fairfax County has had 17 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often winter storms and hurricanes.

Around Braddock

Braddock and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Union Millmostly inland floodingModerate

Braddockmostly inland floodingLow

Fairfax Stationmostly inland floodingLow

Kings Park Westmostly inland floodingLow

George Masonmostly inland floodingVery low

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. Braddock covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Braddock’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Braddock. 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 Braddock 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.