Natural hazards · Pleasant Valley

Pleasant Valley, WV natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Pleasant Valley comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 2 claims here since 2000. 2 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Pleasant Valley?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Pleasant Valley to be higher than in 83% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding92%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Pleasant Valley faces

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

Inland flooding

92% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 96% 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 Pleasant Valley flood?

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

2paid claims since 2000

$10Kpaid to owners

1homes flooded more than once

20002026

Homes that flooded again and again

■ FEMA “severe repetitive loss” (0) ■ flooded 2+ times

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Marion County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

1flood-prone properties bought out and cleared

Disasters that hit Pleasant Valley

2 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Pleasant Valley itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the City of Pleasant Valley.

Brought FEMA money into Pleasant ValleyDeclared for Marion County only

2025

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

1 household applied for aid $10K aid approved

2008

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, Flooding, Mudslides, and

1 household applied for aid $2K aid approved

Marion County has had 19 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. Pleasant Valley 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 Pleasant Valley’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Pleasant Valley. 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.