Natural hazards · Meadowbrook

Meadowbrook, VA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Meadowbrook comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 12 claims here since 1989.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Meadowbrook?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Meadowbrook to be higher than in 24% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding62%Earthquakes10%Tornadoes8%Hurricanes7%Heat waves7%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Meadowbrook faces

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

Inland flooding

62% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 40% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Earthquakes

10% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 70% of U.S. places

Tornadoes

8% of expected damage

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

Hurricanes

7% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 8 years in the area

Heat waves

7% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 47% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Lower here

HailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

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 Meadowbrook flood?

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

12paid claims since 1989

$100Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19892026

Biggest named events

Hurricane Isabel: 3 claims, $7K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Chesterfield County.

Disasters that hit Meadowbrook

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into MeadowbrookDeclared for Chesterfield County only

Chesterfield County has had 22 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and winter storms.

Around Meadowbrook

Meadowbrook and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Meadowbrookmostly inland floodingLow

Richmondmostly inland floodingVery low

Bensleymostly inland floodingVery low

Bellwoodmostly 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. Meadowbrook covers 5 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Meadowbrook’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Meadowbrook. 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 Meadowbrook total about $3.1M 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.