Natural hazards · Cats Bridge

Cats Bridge, VA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Cats Bridge comes from hurricanes, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Cats Bridge?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Cats Bridge to be higher than in 70% of U.S. communities, mostly from hurricanes and inland flooding.

Hurricanes62%Inland flooding17%Coastal flooding11%Everything else10%

By hazard

What Cats Bridge faces

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

Hurricanes

62% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 94% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Inland flooding

17% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 4% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Coastal flooding

11% of expected damage

Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

Not a risk here

AvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Cats Bridge flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Accomack County.

Disasters that hit Cats Bridge

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Cats BridgeDeclared for Accomack County only

Accomack County has had 15 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and winter storms.

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. Cats Bridge 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 Cats Bridge’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Cats Bridge. 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.