Natural hazards · Huntington

Huntington, VA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Huntington comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 194 claims here since 2003.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Huntington?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Huntington to be higher than in 44% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding70%Heat waves8%Hurricanes6%Everything else16%

By hazard

What Huntington faces

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

Inland flooding

70% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 68% of U.S. places

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Heat waves

8% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 49% of U.S. places

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Hurricanes

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 73% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 11 years in the area

Lower here

Coastal floodingTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

DroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Huntington flood?

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

194paid claims since 2003

$3.4Mpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20032026

Biggest named events

Hurricane Isabel: 3 claims, $15K
Hurricane Irene: 2 claims, $24K
Mid-spring storms: 2 claims, $14K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Fairfax County.

Disasters that hit Huntington

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into HuntingtonDeclared for Fairfax County only

Fairfax County has had 17 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often winter storms and hurricanes.

Around Huntington

Huntington and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Belle Havenmostly inland floodingModerate

Huntingtonmostly inland floodingModerate

Alexandriamostly inland floodingModerate

Grovetonmostly inland floodingLow

Rose Hillmostly 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. Huntington covers 5 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Huntington’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Huntington. 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 Huntington total about $2.1M 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.