Campbell County, VA Tornado Risk & Storm Shelter Cost
Campbell County, VA: what NOAA's tornado record says
Since 1984, NOAA has logged 11 tornado tracks crossing Campbell County - one about every 6.9 years, which lands it in our Low band. Nationally, Campbell County ranks at the 32nd percentile for tornado frequency. Virginia has 133 counties in this dataset; Campbell County ranks 30 of them by frequency.
Campbell County's EF4-5 history
Campbell County's record has no EF4-5 tornado - its 11 tracks split 9 weak and 2 significant. That does not rule one out in the future, only that none has been recorded since 1950.
What a storm shelter costs near Campbell County
For a Campbell County homeowner, budget $2,890-$13,280 for a shelter or safe room ($7,645 typical) - this pass found no Virginia-specific rebate on top of FEMA's underlying 75% national cost-share program.
The outage nobody plans for
The storm that misses Campbell County outright can still take its power out - outbreak-scale outages across Virginia are common well beyond the tracked path. A battery-backup unit handles that without a generator's setup or fuel.
Read this before you rely on it
This is a county-level figure, not a per-address probability. Campbell County covers about 503 square miles, so a single touch here counts the same as a single touch in a county a fraction of that size. Pre-radar-era records (before the 1990s) are also documented by NOAA as undercounting weaker tornadoes in sparsely-instrumented areas. Campbell County has about 55,342 residents.