Natural hazards · Glasgow

Glasgow, VA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Glasgow comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 83 claims here since 1985.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Glasgow?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Glasgow to be higher than in 76% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding74%Lightning6%Everything else20%

By hazard

What Glasgow faces

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

Inland flooding

74% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 91% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lightning

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 64% of U.S. places

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windDroughtAvalanches

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 Glasgow flood?

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

83paid claims since 1985

$1.2Mpaid to owners

12homes flooded more than once

19852026

Biggest named events

Hurricane Floyd: 1 claim, $11K

Homes that flooded again and again

■ FEMA “severe repetitive loss” (0) ■ flooded 2+ times

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Rockbridge County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

35flood-prone homes bought out and moved

18homes raised above flood level

11flood-prone properties bought out and cleared

Disasters that hit Glasgow

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into GlasgowDeclared for Rockbridge County only

Rockbridge County has had 21 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. Glasgow covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Glasgow’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Glasgow. 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 Glasgow total about $1.4M 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.