Manassas Park city
Population 16,560 (2025) 3 sq mi
Property owners in Manassas Park city have filed 5 federal flood insurance claims since 1978, 125th most of 133 counties in Virginia.
Hazard fingerprint Each spoke is this county’s percentile among U.S. counties where that hazard occurs. How it is computed
- Tropical cyclone tracks within 100 miles since 1851, wider where stronger27
At a glance
The record for Manassas Park city in eight numbers. Each links to its section below.
Tropical cyclones within 50 mi
12
74th of 133 in Virginia
2 at hurricane strength since 1851
DetailsStrongest tropical cyclone
Cat. 1
Hurricane (unnamed), 1878, 19.8 miles away
Snowiest season
73.2in
Winter of 2009-10
Tornadoes
No tornado is recorded here in the Storm Prediction Center database, which begins in 1950.
Hurricanes and tropical storms
12 passed within 50 miles since 1851; 2 at hurricane strength.
Strongest within 50 miles
October 23, 1878
Unnamed storm, Category 1
19.8 miles at closest approach, winds near 92 mph.
Most recent
July 9, 2021
Elsa, Tropical storm
93.3 miles at closest approach.
Every storm within 100 miles
| Elsa | 2021 | 93.3 | Tropical storm |
| Zeta | 2020 | 49.3 | Post-tropical |
| Isaias | 2020 | 61.0 | Tropical storm |
| Sandy | 2012 | 86.7 | Post-tropical |
| Hanna | 2008 | 71.8 | Tropical storm |
| Ernesto | 2006 | 38.8 | Post-tropical |
| Isabel | 2003 | 74.5 | Tropical storm |
| Bertha | 1996 | 78.2 | Tropical storm |
| Danielle | 1992 | 90.8 | Tropical storm |
| David | 1979 | 62.0 | Tropical storm |
| Diane | 1955 | 22.9 | Tropical storm |
| Connie | 1955 | 48.3 | Tropical storm |
| Hazel | 1954 | 4.9 | Post-tropical |
| Able | 1952 | 18.5 | Tropical storm |
| Unnamed | 1949 | 27.6 | Tropical storm |
| Unnamed | 1945 | 39.2 | Post-tropical |
| Unnamed | 1944 | 54.0 | Tropical storm |
| Unnamed | 1943 | 40.9 | Tropical storm |
| Unnamed | 1934 | 21.7 | Post-tropical |
| Unnamed | 1933 | 12.6 | Tropical storm |
| Unnamed | 1929 | 32.0 | Post-tropical |
| Unnamed | 1928 | 15.3 | Post-tropical |
| Unnamed | 1928 | 76.8 | Post-tropical |
| Unnamed | 1915 | 10.8 | Tropical storm |
| Unnamed | 1904 | 90.1 | Tropical storm |
| Unnamed | 1902 | 67.7 | Post-tropical |
| Unnamed | 1902 | 93.1 | Post-tropical |
| Unnamed | 1899 | 36.9 | Post-tropical |
| Unnamed | 1896 | 61.5 | Tropical storm |
| Unnamed | 1893 | 39.0 | Tropical storm |
| Unnamed | 1893 | 34.0 | Category 1 |
| Unnamed | 1893 | 14.7 | Tropical storm |
| Unnamed | 1888 | 74.0 | Tropical storm |
| Unnamed | 1885 | 31.8 | Post-tropical |
| Unnamed | 1882 | 94.7 | Tropical storm |
| Unnamed | 1878 | 19.8 | Category 1 |
| Unnamed | 1877 | 82.6 | Post-tropical |
| Unnamed | 1876 | 8.0 | Tropical storm |
| Unnamed | 1874 | 86.1 | Tropical storm |
| Unnamed | 1872 | 83.4 | Tropical storm |
| Unnamed | 1863 | 99.9 | Tropical storm |
- 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.
Wildfire and smoke
No large wildfire has been mapped here since satellite mapping began in 1984.
Smoke overhead
Smokiest year
2023: 49 days
Heavy smoke on 11 days in 2023, the most of any year.
Last 10 years
11.8 days a year
Medium or heavy smoke, 2016 to 2025.
2025
12 days
Medium or heavy smoke. 28 so far in 2026.
- 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.
Floods and flood insurance
5 federal flood insurance claims since 1978, with $9,145 paid.
Claims by ZIP code
| 20111 | 5 | $9,145 |
Flood events since 1996
- Heavy Rain5
- Flash Flood2
- Flood1
This product uses the Federal Emergency Management Agency's OpenFEMA API, but is not endorsed by FEMA. The Federal Government or FEMA cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from the Agency's website(s).
OpenFEMA NFIP Redacted Claims v3, refreshed August 4, 2026. NOAA Storm Events through 2026.
Drought
In severe drought or worse for 148 of 1,581 months since 1895 (9%); the longest spell lasted 28 months.
148
Months in severe drought or worse since 1895
50
Months in extreme drought
9%
Share of all months, severe or worse
Lowest reading
February 1931
−7.07, extreme drought
Longest severe spell
28 months
June 2024 to September 2026.
Latest month
September 2026
−3.22, severe drought
- 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.
Earthquakes
1 earthquake of magnitude 4 or more within 50 miles since 1900; the largest was magnitude 4.6 in 1918.
0
Magnitude 2.5+ inside the county since 1973
2
Magnitude 3+ within 50 miles since 1973
1
Magnitude 4+ within 50 miles since 1900
0
Magnitude 5+ within 50 miles since 1900
Largest within 50 miles
April 9, 1918
Magnitude 4.6
6 km NE of Luray, Virginia; 50.0 miles away.
Most recent, magnitude 3 or more
January 17, 2016
Magnitude 3.0
3 km NE of Ranson, West Virginia; 41.6 miles away.
Every earthquake of magnitude 4 or more within 50 miles
| Apr 9, 1918 | 4.6 | 50.0 |
- 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).
- 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.
Severe weather and other events
14 events in the National Weather Service record, 14 of them since 1996.
3
Hail reports, 1 inch or larger
0
Hail, 2 inches or larger
0
Damaging gusts, 58 mph+
0
Winter weather events since 1996
0
Heat events since 1996
0
Cold events since 1996
Largest hail
August 3, 2002
1.00 inches
Costliest events since 1996
- Apr 5, 2000Strong Wind$10,000
National Weather Service narrative
Five construction workers were seriously injured by debris.
- 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.
Weather records
From Washington Dulles International Airport, 11.2 miles from the county’s population centre, with records from 1960.
- All-time high
- 105°FJul 22, 2011
- All-time low
- −18°FJan 22, 1984
- Warmest night
- 81°FJul 16, 2026
- Coldest day
- 6°FJan 19, 1994
- Wettest day
- 10.67 inJun 21, 1972
- Snowiest day
- 22.5 inFeb 11, 1983
- Hottest year
- 2024mean 58.9°F
- Coldest year
- 1976mean 51.9°F
- Wettest year
- 201866.74 in
- Driest year
- 200727.02 in
- Snowiest season
- 73.2 in2009-10
Median first snow
December 10
Earliest: October 10, 1979
Median last snow
March 14
Latest: April 12, 1973
0 of 63 winters had no measurable snow.
Station Washington Dulles International Airport (USW00093738), 294 ft elevation, 11.2 miles from the population centre. Daily records from 1960 to October 26, 2026; 100.0% 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.
Federal disaster declarations
14 since 1953. The most recent: Severe Winter Storm, January 23, 2026.
| Jan 23, 2026 | Winter Storm | EM-3631-VA |
| Apr 2, 2020 | Biological | DR-4512-VA |
| Mar 13, 2020 | Biological | EM-3448-VA |
| Sep 11, 2018 | Hurricane | EM-3403-VA |
| Mar 7, 2016 | Snowstorm | DR-4262-VA |
| Oct 29, 2012 | Hurricane | EM-3359-VA |
| Jul 27, 2012 | Severe Storm | DR-4072-VA |
| Apr 27, 2010 | Snowstorm | DR-1905-VA |
| Feb 16, 2010 | Snowstorm | DR-1874-VA |
| Sep 12, 2005 | Hurricane | EM-3240-VA |
| Sep 18, 2003 | Hurricane | DR-1491-VA |
| Mar 27, 2003 | Severe Storm | DR-1458-VA |
| Jan 13, 1996 | Snowstorm | DR-1086-VA |
| Mar 25, 1993 | Snowstorm | EM-3112-VA |
This product uses the Federal Emergency Management Agency's OpenFEMA API, but is not endorsed by FEMA. The Federal Government or FEMA cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from the Agency's website(s).
OpenFEMA Disaster Declarations Summaries, retrieved October 30, 2026. Statewide declarations are not listed.
How this compares
Where Manassas Park city stands among 133 counties in Virginia and 3,143 in the United States.
| Tornadoes since 1950 | 0 | — |
| Tornadoes rated F3/EF3 or stronger | 0 | — |
| Tropical cyclones within 50 mi | 12 | 74 / 133 |
| Hurricane-strength passes within 50 mi | 2 | 35 / 133 |
| Wildfire acres since 1984 | 0 | — |
| Flood insurance claims | 5 | 125 / 133 |
| Flood insurance paid | $9,145 | 127 / 133 |
| Disaster declarations | 14 | 123 / 133 |
| Flood events since 1996 | 8 | 133 / 133 |
| Hail and wind events since 1996 | 5 | 133 / 133 |
| Winter storm events since 1996 | 0 | — |
| Reported damage since 1996 | $10,000 | 133 / 133 |
| River crests at major flood stage | 0 | — |
| High tide flooding days a year, last 10 years | 0.0 | — |
| Months in severe drought since 1895 | 148 | 1 / 133 |
| Medium or heavy smoke days a year, last 10 years | 11.8 | 30 / 133 |
| Earthquakes M4+ within 50 mi since 1900 | 1 | 65 / 133 |
| Earthquakes M2.5+ in the county since 1973 | 0 | — |
Neighbouring counties
| Manassas city | 1 | 12 |
| Prince William County | 14 | 16 |
Sources and vintage
Every number on this page comes from these public records.
- 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 USW00093738.
- 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.
Joins, thresholds and known limits are set out in the methodology. Found an error? Report it. Page built October 30, 2026.