Natural hazards · Sherando

Sherando, VA natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Sherando?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Sherando to be higher than in 75% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding84%Everything else16%

By hazard

What Sherando faces

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

Inland flooding

84% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 90% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtAvalanches

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingTsunamisVolcanic 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 Sherando flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Sherando 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 Sherando

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into SherandoDeclared for Augusta County only

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

Around Sherando

Sherando and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Sherandomostly inland floodingHigh

Lyndhurstmostly inland floodingLow

Stuarts Draftmostly 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. Sherando 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 Sherando’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Sherando. 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.