Natural hazards · Valley Bend

Valley Bend, WV natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Valley Bend 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 Valley Bend?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Valley Bend to be higher than in 73% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding90%Everything else10%

By hazard

What Valley Bend faces

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

Inland flooding

90% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 91% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtAvalanches

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHeat wavesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Valley Bend flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Randolph County.

Disasters that hit Valley Bend

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Valley BendDeclared for Randolph County only

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

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