Natural hazards · Colliers

Colliers, WV natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Colliers comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Colliers?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Colliers to be higher than in 65% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding89%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Colliers faces

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

Inland flooding

89% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 86% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningAvalanches

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingDroughtTsunamisVolcanic 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 Colliers flood?

FEMA's records show no paid flood insurance claims in Colliers.

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Brooke County.

Disasters that hit Colliers

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Colliers itself: aid to households, or repair grants to Colliers.

Brought FEMA money into ColliersDeclared for Brooke County only

2004

Severe Storms, Flooding, and Landslides

60 households applied for aid $212K aid approved

Brooke County has had 16 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and winter storms.

Around Colliers

Colliers and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Weirtonmostly inland floodingHigh

Colliersmostly 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. Colliers 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 Colliers’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Colliers. 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.