Natural hazards · Dahlgren Center

Dahlgren Center, VA natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Dahlgren Center?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Dahlgren Center to be higher than in 41% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and hurricanes.

Inland flooding43%Hurricanes34%Strong wind5%Everything else18%

By hazard

What Dahlgren Center faces

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

Inland flooding

43% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 27% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Hurricanes

34% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 88% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 10 years in the area

Strong wind

5% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 85% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Lower here

Coastal floodingTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightningDrought

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 Dahlgren Center flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: King George County.

Disasters that hit Dahlgren Center

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for King George County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Dahlgren Center itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into Dahlgren CenterDeclared for King George County only

King George County has had 24 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. Dahlgren Center 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 Dahlgren Center’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Dahlgren Center. 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.