King and Queen County, VA Tornado Risk & Storm Shelter Cost
How likely is a tornado in King and Queen County, VA?
Since 1951, NOAA has logged 8 tornado tracks crossing King and Queen County - one about every 9.5 years, which lands it in our Low band. Nationally, King and Queen County ranks at the 23rd percentile for tornado frequency. Within Virginia alone, King and Queen County ranks 57 of 133 counties for tornado frequency.
King and Queen County's EF4-5 history
King and Queen County's record has no EF4-5 tornado - its 8 tracks split 7 weak and 1 significant. That does not rule one out in the future, only that none has been recorded since 1950.
What a storm shelter costs near King and Queen County
For a King and Queen 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
6,747 people live in King and Queen County, and a tornado outbreak's power loss usually reaches far more of Virginia than the tracks themselves touch. A portable battery unit is the faster, no-fuel way to bridge that outage.
Read this before you rely on it
This is a county-level figure, not a per-address probability. King and Queen County covers about 315 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. King and Queen County has about 6,747 residents.