Natural hazards · Dooms

Dooms, VA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Dooms comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 7 claims here since 1979.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Dooms?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Dooms to be higher than in 33% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding64%Hurricanes8%Strong wind6%Everything else22%

By hazard

What Dooms faces

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

Inland flooding

64% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Hurricanes

8% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 15 years in the area

Strong wind

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 60% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightningDroughtAvalanches

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingTsunamisVolcanic 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 Dooms flood?

Every paid claim on a federal flood insurance policy in Dooms, from FEMA’s records.

7paid claims since 1979

$206Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19792026

Biggest named events

Hurricane Fran: 2 claims, $58K
Hurricane Isabel: 1 claim, $75K
October severe storms: 1 claim, $16K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Augusta County.

Disasters that hit Dooms

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into DoomsDeclared for Augusta County only

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

Around Dooms

Dooms and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Crimoramostly inland floodingModerate

Waynesboromostly inland floodingModerate

Doomsmostly inland floodingLow

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. Dooms covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Dooms’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Dooms. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

FEMA’s expected losses across Dooms total about $1.3M a year, counting buildings, people and crops.

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.