Virginia

Comprehensive climate risk and disaster history profile

Billion-Dollar Events

$319.5B

Total Economic Impact

133

Counties

35.66

Avg Risk Score

Top Natural Hazards

Based on FEMA National Risk Index data across all 133 counties

Hurricane

67.11 Avg Risk Score

Coastal Flooding

63.04 Avg Risk Score

Drought

61.45 Avg Risk Score

Landslide

53.18 Avg Risk Score

Heat Wave

48.84 Avg Risk Score

Lightning

47.28 Avg Risk Score

Earthquake

42.55 Avg Risk Score

Cold Wave

41.85 Avg Risk Score

Historical billion-dollar events by category (1980-2024)

severe-storm 32 events

$69.6B

tropical-cyclone 13 events

$220.5B

winter-storm 9 events

$11.0B

drought 3 events

$13.1B

freeze 2 events

$3.0B

flooding 2 events

$2.4B

How disaster frequency and costs have changed over time

Counties with the highest overall risk scores based on FEMA NRI

Rank	County	Risk Score	Risk Rating	SVI Percentile
1	Fairfax	94.59	Relatively Moderate	24.1%
2	Norfolk	91.5	Relatively Moderate	85.9%
3	Chesapeake	90.58	Relatively Moderate	41.5%
4	Newport News	90.07	Relatively Moderate	84.1%
5	Accomack	89.56	Relatively Moderate	86.0%
6	Chesterfield	88.61	Relatively Moderate	29.4%
7	Virginia Beach	88.2	Relatively Moderate	30.7%
8	Hampton	87.88	Relatively Moderate	74.8%
9	Prince William	85.75	Relatively Moderate	41.2%
10	Portsmouth	83.84	Relatively Moderate	83.5%