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Virginia's Weather History • Virginia Weather and Disaster Statistics • Presidentially Declared Disasters

Presidentially Declared Disasters since 1969

• Aug. 1969 Hurricane Camille (flooding); 27 jurisdictions declared
• June 1972 Hurricane Agnes (flooding); 106 jurisdictions declared
• Sept. 1972 Storm/Flood; Hampton, Newport News, & Virginia Beach declared
• Oct. 1972 Flood; Western, Central, Southeastern Virginia; 31 jurisdictions declared
• April 1977 Flash Flood; Southwestern Virginia; 16 jurisdictions declared
• Nov. 1977 Flood; Southwestern Virginia; 8 jurisdictions declared
• July 1979 Flood; Buchanan County declared
• Sept. 1979 Flood; Patrick County declared
• May 1984 Flood; Buchanan, Dickenson & Washington Counties declared
• Nov. 1985 Flood; Western, Central Virginia; 52 jurisdictions declared
• Oct. 1989 Flood; Buchanan County declared
• April 1992 Flood; Western Virginia; 24 jurisdictions declared
• March 1993 Snowstorm; 43 jurisdictions declared
• Aug. 1993 Tornado; Petersburg declared
• Feb. 1994 Ice Storm; Central, Western Virginia; 71 jurisdictions declared
• March 1994 Ice Storm; Central, Western Virginia; 29 jurisdictions declared
• June 1995 Flood; Central & Western Virginia; 24 jurisdictions declared
• Jan. 1996 Blizzard; All counties and cities in state declared
• Jan. 1996 Flood; 27 jurisdictions declared
• Sept. 1996 Hurricane Fran (flooding); 88 jurisdictions declared
• Aug. 1998 Hurricane Bonnie (flooding); 5 jurisdictions declared
• Sept. 1999 Hurricane Dennis; Hampton declared
• Sept. 1999 Hurricane Floyd (flooding); 48 jurisdictions declared
• Feb. 2000 Winter Storms; 107 jurisdictions declared
• July 2001 Flood; Southwestern Virginia; 10 jurisdictions declared
• Sept. 2001 Pentagon Attack; 1 jurisdiction declared
• March 2002 Flood; Southwestern Virginia; 10 jurisdictions declared
• April/May 2002 Flood; Southwestern Virginia; 9 jurisdictions declared
• Feb. 2003 Winter Storms/Flooding; 39 jurisdictions declared
• Sept. 2003 Hurricane Isabel (winds, flooding); 100 jurisdictions declared | view disaster mini-site
• Nov. 2003 Flood; Southwestern Virginia; 6 jurisdictions declared
• May 2004 Flood; Southwestern Virginia; 3 jurisdictions declared
• Sept. 2004 Flood; Central Virginia; 12 jurisdictions declared | view disaster mini-site
• Oct. 2004 Flood; Southwestern Virginia; 10 jurisdictions declared | view disaster mini-site
• June/July 2006 Flood, wind, tornadoes, mudslides; 16 jurisdictions declared (public assistance only) | view disaster mini-site
• Sept. 2006 Tropical Depression Ernesto; 21 jurisdictions declared (public assistance only) | view disaster mini-site