Natural hazards · Mount Sidney

Mount Sidney, VA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Mount Sidney comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Mount Sidney?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

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

Inland flooding63%Hurricanes8%Strong wind5%Everything else24%

By hazard

What Mount Sidney faces

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

Inland flooding

63% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 37% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Hurricanes

8% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 22 years in the area

Strong wind

5% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 60% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightningDrought

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 Mount Sidney flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Augusta County.

Disasters that hit Mount Sidney

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Mount Sidney itself: aid to households, or repair grants to Mount Sidney.

Brought FEMA money into Mount SidneyDeclared for Augusta County only

2003

Hurricane Isabel

4 households applied for aid $2K aid approved

Augusta County has had 22 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. Mount Sidney 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 Mount Sidney’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Mount Sidney. 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.