Natural hazards · Fieldale

Fieldale, VA natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Fieldale?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Fieldale to be higher than in 35% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding76%Cold waves6%Everything else18%

By hazard

What Fieldale faces

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

Inland flooding

76% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 59% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Cold waves

6% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

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 Fieldale flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Henry County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

1flood-prone properties bought out and cleared

Disasters that hit Fieldale

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into FieldaleDeclared for Henry County only

Henry County has had 13 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and severe 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. Fieldale 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 Fieldale’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Fieldale. 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.