Natural hazards · Blacksville

Blacksville, WV natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Blacksville comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 8 claims here since 1980.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Blacksville?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Blacksville to be higher than in 92% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding94%Everything else6%

By hazard

What Blacksville faces

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

Inland flooding

94% of expected damage

Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong 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 Blacksville flood?

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

8paid claims since 1980

$90Kpaid to owners

1homes flooded more than once

19802026

Homes that flooded again and again

■ FEMA “severe repetitive loss” (1) ■ flooded 2+ times

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Monongalia County.

Disasters that hit Blacksville

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into BlacksvilleDeclared for Monongalia County only

Monongalia County has had 18 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and winter storms.

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. Blacksville 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 Blacksville’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Blacksville. 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.