Is Radford city, VA in a flood zone?
FEMA's National Risk Index puts Radford city's flood hazard at the 11.4th 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 3 years. That's a county-wide figure, not a per-address one — FEMA's parcel maps are a live lookup, not a bulk file.
Radford city's flood-insurance compliance gap
Radford 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 Radford city, not just the ones FEMA mandates, 0.4% carry an NFIP policy — most flood damage nationally happens outside the mapped high-risk zone, so that broader number matters too.
How Radford city compares nationally
Radford city sits at rank 2805 of 3144 counties on FEMA's flood hazard scale (1 is worst) and rank 1962 of 3144 by population (1 is biggest). Radford city, Virginia is home to about 17,273 people across 9.676 square miles of land.
Checking a specific address in Radford city
FEMA counts 3,177 residential structures in Radford city overall, 11 of them carrying some form of NFIP coverage — but a lender or insurer cares about one parcel, not that county total.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly which FEMA and Census tables feed Radford city's numbers. See the data quality guide for why Radford city, like hundreds of other counties, doesn't get a clean compliance percentage.