Natural hazards · Tuckahoe

Tuckahoe, VA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Tuckahoe comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 108 claims here since 1978.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Tuckahoe?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Tuckahoe to be higher than in 23% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and earthquakes.

Inland flooding60%Earthquakes16%Tornadoes8%Heat waves5%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Tuckahoe faces

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

Inland flooding

60% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 35% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Earthquakes

16% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 77% of U.S. places

Tornadoes

8% of expected damage

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

Heat waves

5% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold 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 Tuckahoe flood?

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

108paid claims since 1978

$1.6Mpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19782026

Biggest named events

Hurricane Fran: 5 claims, $191K
Hurricane Eta: 3 claims, $98K
Hurricane Florence: 2 claims, $28K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Tuckahoe 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 Tuckahoe

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into TuckahoeDeclared for Henrico County only

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

Around Tuckahoe

Tuckahoe and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Tuckahoemostly inland floodingLow

Short Pumpmostly inland floodingVery low

Richmondmostly 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. Tuckahoe covers 13 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Tuckahoe’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Tuckahoe. 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 Tuckahoe total about $7.9M 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.