Is Martinsville city, VA in a flood zone?
FEMA's National Risk Index puts Martinsville city's flood hazard at the 23.1th percentile nationally — among the lowest flood hazard in the country — driven by inland rivers and flash flooding rather than the coast — FEMA's model puts a flood event here at about once every 1 years. This describes the county, not any one street — FEMA only publishes exact parcel zones through a live map service.
Martinsville city's flood-insurance compliance gap
Martinsville city is one of the counties where FEMA's own denominator for mandated flood-zone structures is missing, so no compliance rate is shown rather than a guessed one — the data quality guide covers how common this is. Across all residential structures in Martinsville city, not just the ones FEMA mandates, 0% carry an NFIP policy — most flood damage nationally happens outside the mapped high-risk zone, so that broader number matters too.
How Martinsville city compares nationally
Martinsville city sits at rank 2460 of 3144 counties on FEMA's flood hazard scale (1 is worst) and rank 2171 of 3144 by population (1 is biggest). Martinsville city, Virginia covers 10.956 square miles and counts roughly 13,834 residents.
Your street may differ from Martinsville city's average
0 of Martinsville city's 5,893 residential structures carry flood coverage of some kind, per FEMA's latest count — useful context, not a substitute for checking one parcel.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly which FEMA and Census tables feed Martinsville city's numbers. See the data quality guide for why Martinsville city, like hundreds of other counties, doesn't get a clean compliance percentage.