Natural hazards · McMullin

McMullin, VA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in McMullin comes from cold waves, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is McMullin?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in McMullin to be higher than in 30% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves and inland flooding.

Cold waves46%Inland flooding42%Everything else12%

By hazard

What McMullin faces

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

Cold waves

46% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 84% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

42% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 56% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtAvalanches

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHeat wavesTsunamisVolcanic 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 McMullin flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Smyth County.

Disasters that hit McMullin

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into McMullinDeclared for Smyth County only

Smyth County has had 17 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms 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. McMullin 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 McMullin’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to McMullin. 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.