Natural hazards · Sugarland Run

Sugarland Run, VA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Sugarland Run comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 6 claims here since 2003.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Sugarland Run?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Sugarland Run to be higher than in 9% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding56%Heat waves12%Tornadoes10%Strong wind6%Hurricanes5%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Sugarland Run faces

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

Inland flooding

56% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 22% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Heat waves

12% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

10% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 50% of U.S. places

Strong wind

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 53% of U.S. places

Recorded about 8 times a year in the area

Hurricanes

5% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 10 years in the area

Lower here

HailIce stormsWinter weatherCold 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 Sugarland Run flood?

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

6paid claims since 2003

$406Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20032026

Biggest named events

Hurricane Irene: 1 claim, $16K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Loudoun County.

Disasters that hit Sugarland Run

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Sugarland RunDeclared for Loudoun County only

Loudoun County has had 13 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often winter storms and hurricanes.

Around Sugarland Run

Sugarland Run and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Lowes Islandmostly inland floodingLow

Cascadesmostly inland floodingVery low

Sugarland Runmostly inland floodingVery low

Sterlingmostly 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. Sugarland Run covers 2 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Sugarland Run’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Sugarland Run. 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 Sugarland Run total about $1.2M 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.