Natural hazards · Blennerhassett

Blennerhassett, WV natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Blennerhassett comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 50 claims here since 1998.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Blennerhassett?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Blennerhassett to be higher than in 74% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding88%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Blennerhassett faces

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

Inland flooding

88% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 91% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong 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 Blennerhassett flood?

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

50paid claims since 1998

$571Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19982026

Biggest named events

Tropical Storm Ivan: 11 claims, $129K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Wood County.

Disasters that hit Blennerhassett

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into BlennerhassettDeclared for Wood County only

Wood County has had 15 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Blennerhassett

Blennerhassett and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Washingtonmostly inland floodingHigh

Lubeckmostly inland floodingHigh

Blennerhassettmostly inland floodingHigh

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. Blennerhassett covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Blennerhassett’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Blennerhassett. 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 Blennerhassett total about $1.4M 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.