Natural hazards · Mitchell Heights

Mitchell Heights, WV natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Mitchell Heights comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 5 claims here since 1978. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Mitchell Heights?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Mitchell Heights to be higher than in 96% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding88%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Mitchell Heights 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 · among the top 1% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times 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 Mitchell Heights flood?

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

5paid claims since 1978

$6Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19782026

Biggest named events

April 2007 Nor'easter: 1 claim, $1K
February West Virginia Flooding: 1 claim, $4K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Logan County.

Disasters that hit Mitchell Heights

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Mitchell Heights itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the Town of Mitchell Heights.

Brought FEMA money into Mitchell HeightsDeclared for Logan County only

2025

Severe Storm, Straight-Line Winds, Flooding, Landslides, and Mudslides

$35K to the Town of Mitchell Heights for repairs

Logan County has had 28 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. Mitchell Heights 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 Mitchell Heights’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Mitchell Heights. 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.