Buckingham County

Every recorded tornado

1. Injuries and deaths are for the tornado’s whole path, which may extend beyond the county. Deaths recorded within Buckingham County: 0.
2. Weak tornadoes were under-recorded before Doppler radar coverage became national in the early 1990s, so earlier decades read low. Ratings use the Fujita scale before February 2007 and the Enhanced Fujita scale after.

Storm Prediction Center severe weather database, 1950 to 2025.

Every storm within 100 miles

1. Tropical storms and hurricanes (34 kt or more, still tropical) at closest approach. Post-tropical remnants with gale-force winds are listed but not counted. Direct: track within 50 miles; near: within 100 miles. Distance is measured to the county boundary for counties and to the city centre for cities, using positions interpolated hourly between HURDAT2 fixes.

National Hurricane Center HURDAT2, 1851 to 2025.

Every large fire

1. Large fires mapped by the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity program since 1984: 1,000 acres or more in the West, 500 or more in the East. Prescribed burns are excluded. Acres here are the part of each perimeter inside this place.

Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USGS and U.S. Forest Service), 1984 to 2026.

Smoke overhead

1. A smoke day is a date on which a smoke plume traced by NOAA Hazard Mapping System analysts from satellite imagery covered this place's point (the county's population centre or the city centre). Counts here are of medium or heavy smoke. Since 2018 analysts have often drawn light smoke as one area over most of the continent, so light-smoke counts are not comparable from year to year. The plumes show smoke anywhere in the air above, not air quality at the ground, and smoke hidden by cloud is missed.

NOAA Hazard Mapping System smoke analysis, 2011 to 2026, retrieved October 30, 2026.

Claims by ZIP code

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OpenFEMA NFIP Redacted Claims v3, refreshed August 4, 2026. NOAA Storm Events through 2026.

River crests

River gauges

1. Crests are the highest and the recent crests the National Weather Service lists for each river gauge in the county that has a flood stage, not every flood. Flood categories use each gauge's current flood stages; crests from before levees, dams or channel changes may not be comparable. Crests measured on an old datum are left out of the rankings.

NOAA National Water Prediction Service gauge records, retrieved October 30, 2026.

1. The Palmer Drought Severity Index is computed by NOAA each month from the county's average temperature and precipitation, relative to the county's own climate. Zero is normal; -3 or lower is severe drought and -4 or lower extreme drought. It describes the long-term balance of moisture, not water supply or crop losses.

NOAA NCEI nClimDiv county Palmer Drought Severity Index, 1895 to September 2026, issued October 6, 2026.

Every earthquake of magnitude 4 or more within 50 miles

1. Earthquakes of magnitude 2.5 or more in the USGS Comprehensive Catalog since 1900. Within 50 miles means the epicentre lies within 50 miles of the county boundary (or inside the county).
2. Small earthquakes were under-recorded before the modern seismic networks of the 1970s and are still missed in remote areas, so early decades read low. Magnitudes are as the catalogue reports them and mix scales (moment, local and body-wave).

USGS ANSS Comprehensive Earthquake Catalog, 1900 to present, retrieved October 30, 2026.

More event types since 1996

Costliest events since 1996

1. Sep 18, 2003Tropical Storm, Buckingham$500,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   As Hurricane Isabel weakened to a tropical storm, winds were sustained during the mid afternoon and early evening at up to 50 to 60 mph with gusts near 70 mph. This produced widespread wind damage with numerous trees and power lines reported down.In Campbell County, 2 homes were destroyed and 10 homes suffered minor damage. In Amherst County, 1 residence suffered minor damage. In Appomattox County 1 home suffered major damage. In Buckingham County, 1 home was destroyed, 3 homes suffered major damage and 1 business suffered minor damage. In Charlotte County, 2 homes were destroyed, 30 homes suffered major damage, and 5 businesses suffered minor damage. Crop damage was also reported…

2. Sep 6, 1996Flash Flood$400,000
3. May 9, 2003Thunderstorm Wind$350,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   Thunderstorms during the afternoon and evening hours on the 9th produced hail up to golf ball size, damaging winds, and dangerous lightning.A severe thunderstorm during the afternoon of the 9th tracked from about 7 miles northeast of Centenery to 7 miles east northeast of Dillwyn. At times the damage path was 2 miles wide with sporadic damage to buildings and 3 comercial chicken houses destroyed. Numerous large trees were downed and uprooted along the path of the storm. In addition to the damaging winds, this storm also produced golf ball size hail along it's track. A fatality also occured when a tree was toppled onto a house in Arvonia.Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees in…

4. Jun 29, 2012Thunderstorm Wind$300,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   Thunderstorm wind blew numerous trees down across the county. One home was damaged by a falling tree. Damage values are estimated.

5. Apr 19, 2013Thunderstorm Wind$150,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   The Buckingham County Emergency Management Director reported that over two dozen trees were blown down across the central and eastern part of the county from just west-southwest and northwest of Dillwyn to just south-southeast of Gold Hill. There were also several incidents of structural damage as well. Several trees were down along Buffalo Road northwest of Dillwyn and several trees were also down between Sprouses Corner and the Cumberland county line between Dillwyn and Gold Hill. Two trees were down on Fanny White Road near the Buckingham County High School. Other individual trees were down on Andersonville Road southwest of Dillwyn, near Sprouses Corner west of Dillwyn, and…

6. Jan 25, 2010Flash Flood$100,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   Heavy rain prompted flash flooding and the resultant flood washed out a portion of Highway 667. Damage values are estimated.

7. Jun 1, 2012Thunderstorm Wind$100,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   Thunderstorm winds blew over a tractor trailer. Damage values are estimated.

8. Sep 6, 1996High Wind, Buckingham$100,000
9. Oct 11, 2018Strong Wind, Buckingham$55,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   Wind gusts estimated to be in the 25 to 35 mph range were common during the passage of Tropical Storm Michael. These gusty winds, when combined with the effects of saturated ground due to heavy rain from the storm, resulted in over a dozen trees and power lines down across the county. One of the the fallen trees landed on a home along Andersonville Road, causing structural damage.

10. Jun 27, 2006Flash Flood$55,000
    National Weather Service narrative

    Several Roads were closed due to a washout in Buckingham county including State Route 662 from Highway 56 to Route 661, Route 805 and Route 737 between Route 601 and Route 664.

1. Storm Events records before 1996 cover only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail. Damage figures are as reported by the National Weather Service at the time, not adjusted for inflation.

NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database, 1950 to 2026, issued October 26, 2026.

All-time high

106°F2 times, most recently Jul 5, 2026

All-time low

−13°FFeb 5, 1996

Warmest night

76°F5 times, most recently Jun 25, 2025

Coldest day

17°FJan 31, 2010

Wettest day

9.38 inOct 21, 1961

Snowiest day

15.0 inDec 26, 1969

Hottest year

2024mean 59.3°F

Coldest year

2009mean 53.4°F

Wettest year

201874.31 in

Driest year

196825.88 in

Snowiest season

58.9 in1995-96

Station Scottsville 6SE (USC00446491), 312 ft elevation, 12.1 miles from the population centre. Daily records from 1994 to October 23, 2026; 97.4% of days in the last 30 years are complete. Records at a single station can differ from a city’s official threaded record, which may combine several stations.

NOAA NCEI Global Historical Climatology Network Daily.

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OpenFEMA Disaster Declarations Summaries, retrieved October 30, 2026. Statewide declarations are not listed.

Neighbouring counties

• Tornadoes NOAA Storm Prediction Center severe weather database, through 2025.
• Tropical cyclones NOAA National Hurricane Center HURDAT2 (Atlantic; Northeast and Central Pacific), through 2025.
• Wildfire USGS/USFS Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity, through 2026.
• Storm events NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database, through 2026.
• Flood insurance OpenFEMA NFIP Redacted Claims v3, refreshed August 4, 2026.
• Declarations OpenFEMA Disaster Declarations Summaries v2, retrieved October 30, 2026.
• Weather records NOAA NCEI Global Historical Climatology Network Daily, station USC00446491.
• River crests NOAA National Weather Service, National Water Prediction Service river gauges, retrieved October 30, 2026.
• Drought NOAA NCEI nClimDiv county Palmer Drought Severity Index, through September 2026.
• Smoke NOAA NESDIS Hazard Mapping System smoke analysis, retrieved October 30, 2026.
• Earthquakes USGS ANSS Comprehensive Earthquake Catalog (ComCat), retrieved October 30, 2026.

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