Natural hazards · Galloway

Galloway, WV natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Galloway comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Galloway?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Galloway to be higher than in 71% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding84%Everything else16%

By hazard

What Galloway faces

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

Inland flooding

84% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 89% 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 Galloway flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Barbour County.

Disasters that hit Galloway

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into GallowayDeclared for Barbour County only

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

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