Natural hazards · Glenvar

Glenvar, VA natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Glenvar?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Glenvar to be higher than in 19% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding74%Strong wind8%Everything else18%

By hazard

What Glenvar 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

Below average · higher than 43% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Strong wind

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 78% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce 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 Glenvar flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Roanoke County.

Disasters that hit Glenvar

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into GlenvarDeclared for Roanoke County only

Roanoke County has had 21 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and severe storms.

Around Glenvar

Glenvar and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Salemmostly inland floodingModerate

Glenvarmostly inland floodingVery low

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