Randolph County, West Virginia: hazard history

FEMA declared 22 disasters that named Randolph County between 1967 and 2026.

Most recent declarations

• EM-3639 2026 · Winter Storm · Severe Winter Storm
• DR-4517 2020 · Biological · Covid-19 Pandemic
• EM-3450 2020 · Biological · Covid-19
• DR-4455 2019 · Flood · Severe Storms, Flooding, Landslides, And Mudslides
• DR-4331 2017 · Severe Storm · Severe Storms, Flooding, Landslides, And Mudslides
• DR-4273 2016 · Flood · Severe Storms, Flooding, Landslides, And Mudslides
• EM-3358 2012 · Hurricane · Hurricane Sandy
• DR-4093 2012 · Hurricane · Hurricane Sandy
• DR-4071 2012 · Severe Storm · Severe Storms And Straight-line Winds
• EM-3345 2012 · Severe Storm · Severe Storms

Not counted above: 6 statewide declarations, which covered every county in West Virginia. A declaration is a decision to send federal help, not a measure of how bad an event was. Records run from 1953. Source: FEMA OpenFEMA Disaster Declarations Summaries.

Records start in 1996. Damage is NOAA's estimate at the time, in nominal dollars, and is often rounded; it is not insurance claims data. A storm that crossed two NOAA zones in this county is recorded, and counted, once per zone.

NOAA storm event records in Randolph County each year. The busiest year was 2025, with 48 records.

Years with no record are left out of the table, not shown as zero.

Costliest records

1. Blizzard · Oct 29, 2012$3.8M
   NOAA name: RANDOLPH · NOAA record 412901
2. Flash Flood · May 16, 1996$1.5M
   NOAA name: RANDOLPH · 2 deaths · NOAA record 5555484
3. Flood · Jan 19, 1996$1.0M
   NOAA name: RANDOLPH · NOAA record 5542298
4. Thunderstorm Wind · Jun 29, 2012$1.0M
   NOAA name: RANDOLPH · 1 death · NOAA record 394847
5. Flash Flood · Jun 30, 2019$1.0M
   NOAA name: RANDOLPH · NOAA record 833134

Deadliest records

1. Flash Flood · May 16, 19962 deaths
   NOAA name: RANDOLPH · $1.5M damage · NOAA record 5555484
2. Thunderstorm Wind · Jun 29, 20121 death
   NOAA name: RANDOLPH · $1.0M damage · NOAA record 394847

Each line is one NOAA record, linked to its page at NOAA. One large storm can appear more than once if NOAA recorded it in several zones of this county. Dollars are nominal.

The National Flood Insurance Program paid $4.8M on 525 claims in Randolph County from 1978 to 2024.

A count of claims, not a rate: NFIP publishes no count of insured homes beside it, and most flood damage is uninsured. Nominal dollars. Records run from 1978 to 2024; claims filed without a county code are not on any county page. Source: FEMA OpenFEMA FIMA NFIP Redacted Claims.

A hazard vulnerability analysis rates each hazard for probability, impact, preparedness and response. Probability is the one column the county’s federal record can fill — NCEI storm events from 1996 to 2026 and FEMA declarations naming the county — and this is what it says for a facility here, on the 0–3 scale of the all-hazards structure surveyors expect. The other six columns are the facility’s own judgment about its building, and Calchis leaves them blank.

A dash means the record does not speak to that hazard; it is not a zero. Whether a finished document satisfies the CMS Emergency Preparedness Rule is the facility’s finding and its surveyor’s. Complete the HVA for a facility in Randolph County — the technological, human and hazardous-materials rows, the six facility columns, the approval and the printed document — or read the sample analysis on that page first.

• Every figure is counted from public federal records held by Calchis: NOAA NCEI Storm Events, FEMA OpenFEMA Disaster Declarations, and FEMA NFIP claims. Nothing is modeled or estimated.
• NOAA files some events by county and others by forecast zone, and names both. Records are counted as Randolph County when their NOAA name is this county's name, alone or with a word like “Coastal” or “Inland” in front. The county codes NOAA also publishes have not been loaded for West Virginia yet; when they are, this page will count by code instead, and some counties' records will grow. NOAA names counted here: NORTHWEST RANDOLPH, RANDOLPH, SOUTHEAST RANDOLPH. Zones named for something else, such as a mountain range or two counties at once, are left out: 0% of West Virginia's NOAA records.
• Counts last rebuilt from the source records on Sep 15, 2026.