Natural hazards · Hollins

Hollins, VA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Hollins comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 79 claims here since 1978.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Hollins?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Hollins to be higher than in 39% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding78%Strong wind7%Everything else16%

By hazard

What Hollins faces

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

Inland flooding

78% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 66% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Strong wind

7% 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 wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingDroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Hollins flood?

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

79paid claims since 1978

$1.4Mpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19782026

Biggest named events

Hurricane Fran: 3 claims, $17K
Tropical Storm Ivan: 2 claims, $50K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Hollins 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 Hollins

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into HollinsDeclared for Roanoke County only

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

Around Hollins

Hollins and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Hollinsmostly inland floodingLow

Roanokemostly inland floodingLow

Cloverdalemostly 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. Hollins covers 4 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Hollins’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Hollins. 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 Hollins total about $3.9M 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.