Natural hazards · North Hills

North Hills, WV natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is North Hills?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in North Hills to be higher than in 33% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding80%Everything else20%

By hazard

What North Hills faces

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

Inland flooding

80% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 62% 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 North Hills flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. North Hills 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 North Hills

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into North HillsDeclared for Wood County only

Wood County has had 15 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. North Hills 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 North Hills’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of North Hills. 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.