Natural hazards · Brucetown

Brucetown, VA natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Brucetown?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Brucetown to be higher than in 21% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding56%Hurricanes11%Drought6%Strong wind6%Tornadoes5%Heat waves5%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Brucetown faces

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

Inland flooding

56% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Hurricanes

11% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 81% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 11 years in the area

Drought

6% of expected damage

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Strong wind

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 72% of U.S. places

Recorded about 7 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

5% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 44% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 65 years in the area

Heat waves

5% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 38% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Lower here

HailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

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 Brucetown flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Frederick County.

Disasters that hit Brucetown

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into BrucetownDeclared for Frederick County only

Frederick County has had 16 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. Brucetown 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 Brucetown’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Brucetown. 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.