Natural hazards · McKenney

McKenney, VA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in McKenney comes from drought, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. 2 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is McKenney?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

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

Drought51%Inland flooding27%Hurricanes7%Everything else16%

By hazard

What McKenney faces

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

Drought

51% of expected damage

Recorded about 7 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

27% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 35% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Hurricanes

7% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 69% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 6 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 McKenney flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Dinwiddie County.

Disasters that hit McKenney

2 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in McKenney itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the Town of McKenney.

Brought FEMA money into McKenneyDeclared for Dinwiddie County only

2021

Severe Winter Storms

$24K to the Town of McKenney for repairs

2003

Hurricane Isabel

$12K to the Town of McKenney for repairs

Dinwiddie County has had 20 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. McKenney 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 McKenney’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of McKenney. 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.