Natural hazards · Glen Wilton

Glen Wilton, VA natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Glen Wilton?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Glen Wilton to be higher than in 80% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding83%Cold waves7%Everything else10%

By hazard

What Glen Wilton faces

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

Inland flooding

83% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 94% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Cold waves

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 96% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtAvalanches

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 Glen Wilton flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Botetourt County.

Disasters that hit Glen Wilton

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Glen WiltonDeclared for Botetourt County only

Botetourt 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. Glen Wilton 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 Glen Wilton’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Glen Wilton. 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.