Natural hazards · Yorkshire

Yorkshire, VA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Yorkshire comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 39 claims here since 1978.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Yorkshire?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Yorkshire to be higher than in 41% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding62%Heat waves11%Tornadoes7%Earthquakes5%Everything else14%

By hazard

What Yorkshire faces

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

Inland flooding

62% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 63% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Heat waves

11% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 48% of U.S. places

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

7% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 45% of U.S. places

Earthquakes

5% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 64% of U.S. places

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightning

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 Yorkshire flood?

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

39paid claims since 1978

$899Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19782026

Biggest named events

Mid-spring storms: 4 claims, $105K
Hurricane Fran: 1 claim, $16K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Prince William County.

Disasters that hit Yorkshire

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into YorkshireDeclared for Prince William County only

Prince William County has had 17 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often winter storms and hurricanes.

Around Yorkshire

Yorkshire and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Loch Lomondmostly inland floodingVery high

Bull Runmostly inland floodingModerate

Manassas Parkmostly inland floodingModerate

Yorkshiremostly inland floodingModerate

Buckhallmostly inland floodingLow

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. Yorkshire covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Yorkshire’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Yorkshire. 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 Yorkshire total about $1.0M 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.