Natural hazards · Crewe

Crewe, VA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Crewe comes from drought, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. 3 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Crewe?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Crewe to be higher than in 12% of U.S. communities, mostly from drought and inland flooding.

Drought26%Inland flooding20%Strong wind16%Hurricanes15%Earthquakes6%Everything else16%

By hazard

What Crewe faces

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

Drought

26% of expected damage

Recorded about 8 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

20% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 7% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Strong wind

16% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 55% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Hurricanes

15% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 84% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 10 years in the area

Earthquakes

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 70% of U.S. places

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesLightning

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 Crewe flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Nottoway County.

Disasters that hit Crewe

3 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Crewe itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the Town of Crewe.

Brought FEMA money into CreweDeclared for Nottoway County only

2025

Severe Winter Storms and Flooding

$3K to the Town of Crewe for repairs

2021

Severe Winter Storms

$54K to the Town of Crewe for repairs

2003

Hurricane Isabel

80 households applied for aid $38K aid approved $9K to the Town of Crewe for repairs

Nottoway County has had 19 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. Crewe 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 Crewe’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Crewe. 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.