Natural hazards · Broadlands

Broadlands, VA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Broadlands comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Broadlands?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Broadlands to be higher than in 15% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding62%Heat waves10%Tornadoes8%Everything else20%

By hazard

What Broadlands faces

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

Inland flooding

62% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 31% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Heat waves

10% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 43% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

8% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 50% of U.S. places

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold 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 Broadlands flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Loudoun County.

Disasters that hit Broadlands

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into BroadlandsDeclared for Loudoun County only

Loudoun County has had 13 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often winter storms and hurricanes.

Around Broadlands

Broadlands and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Broadlandsmostly inland floodingVery low

Brambletonmostly inland floodingVery low

Ashburnmostly inland floodingVery low

Moorefieldmostly 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. Broadlands covers 2 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Broadlands’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Broadlands. 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 Broadlands total about $1.8M 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.