West Virginia

Comprehensive climate risk and disaster history profile

Billion-Dollar Events

$129.5B

Total Economic Impact

Counties

23.41

Avg Risk Score

Top Natural Hazards

Based on FEMA National Risk Index data across all 55 counties

Landslide

69.9 Avg Risk Score

Riverine Flooding

67.09 Avg Risk Score

Lightning

47.13 Avg Risk Score

Hurricane

46.36 Avg Risk Score

Cold Wave

41.18 Avg Risk Score

Wildfire

39.51 Avg Risk Score

Ice Storm

34.53 Avg Risk Score

Heat Wave

32.31 Avg Risk Score

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

severe-storm 14 events

$25.6B

winter-storm 3 events

$2.4B

tropical-cyclone 3 events

$91.0B

drought 2 events

$6.0B

flooding 2 events

$2.4B

freeze 1 events

$2.0B

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	Kanawha	79.57	Relatively Low	53.4%
2	Logan	64.3	Relatively Low	66.2%
3	McDowell	63.92	Relatively Low	87.2%
4	Berkeley	59.85	Relatively Low	27.0%
5	Raleigh	57.33	Relatively Low	78.9%
6	Ohio	54.12	Relatively Low	47.4%
7	Mingo	50.3	Relatively Low	67.6%
8	Greenbrier	44.96	Very Low	45.4%
9	Jefferson	44.89	Very Low	21.7%
10	Mercer	44.23	Very Low	73.4%