Natural hazards · Piney Mountain

Piney Mountain, VA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Piney Mountain comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Piney Mountain?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

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

Inland flooding71%Strong wind8%Hurricanes6%Everything else15%

By hazard

What Piney Mountain faces

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

Inland flooding

71% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 66% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Strong wind

8% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 59% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Hurricanes

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 78% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 15 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingDroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Piney Mountain flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Albemarle County.

Disasters that hit Piney Mountain

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Piney MountainDeclared for Albemarle County only

Albemarle County has had 23 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. Piney Mountain 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 Piney Mountain’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Piney Mountain. 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.