Natural hazards · Teays Valley

Teays Valley, WV natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Teays Valley comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 100 claims here since 1978.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Teays Valley?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Teays Valley to be higher than in 54% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding81%Heat waves10%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Teays Valley faces

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

Inland flooding

81% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 79% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Heat waves

10% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 66% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Teays Valley flood?

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

100paid claims since 1978

$1.6Mpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19782026

Biggest named events

Summer severe storms: 1 claim, $11K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Teays 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: Putnam County.

Disasters that hit Teays Valley

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Teays ValleyDeclared for Putnam County only

Putnam County has had 18 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Teays Valley

Teays Valley and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Nitromostly inland floodingVery high

Teays Valleymostly inland floodingModerate

Hurricanemostly inland floodingLow

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. Teays Valley covers 4 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Teays Valley’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Teays Valley. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

FEMA’s expected losses across Teays Valley total about $5.9M a year, counting buildings, people and crops.

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.