Natural hazards · Claypool Hill

Claypool Hill, VA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Claypool Hill comes from inland flooding, 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 Claypool Hill?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Claypool Hill to be higher than in 73% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding77%Cold waves12%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Claypool Hill faces

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

Inland flooding

77% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 90% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Cold waves

12% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 87% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtAvalanches

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHeat wavesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Claypool Hill flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Tazewell County.

Disasters that hit Claypool Hill

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Claypool HillDeclared for Tazewell County only

Tazewell County has had 22 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and winter storms.

Around Claypool Hill

Claypool Hill and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Claypool Hillmostly inland floodingHigh

Cedar Bluffmostly inland floodingHigh

Pounding Millmostly inland floodingHigh

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