Natural hazards · Short Pump

Short Pump, VA natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Short Pump?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Short Pump to be higher than in 18% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and earthquakes.

Inland flooding58%Earthquakes17%Tornadoes8%Everything else17%

By hazard

What Short Pump faces

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

Inland flooding

58% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 26% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Earthquakes

17% of expected damage

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

Tornadoes

8% of expected damage

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

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat 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 Short Pump flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Henrico County.

Disasters that hit Short Pump

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Short PumpDeclared for Henrico County only

Henrico County has had 19 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and winter storms.

Around Short Pump

Short Pump and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Wyndhammostly inland floodingLow

Tuckahoemostly inland floodingLow

Short Pumpmostly inland floodingVery low

Innsbrookmostly 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. Short Pump covers 7 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Short Pump’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Short Pump. 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 Short Pump total about $5.0M 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.