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Articles related to natural disasters in Virginia, including avalanches, droughts, earthquakes, floods, heat waves, landslides, tropical cyclones, volcanic activity and wildfires Wikimedia Commons has media related to Natural disasters in Virginia .
The Year Without a Summer was an agricultural disaster; historian John D. Post called it "the last great subsistence crisis in the Western world". [4] [5] The climatic aberrations of 1816 had their greatest effect on New England (US), Atlantic Canada, and Western Europe.
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The storm likely would have been a large Category 4 or 5 hurricane when passing by Virginia and was at least a high-end Category 3 at landfall. Sustained winds of 132 mph (212 km/h) and a central pressure of 938 mbar (27.7 inHg) is the estimated intensity during the Long Island's landfall, & a pressure of 939 mbar (27.7 inHg) during the second ...
The deadliest natural disaster in Virginia was Hurricane Camille, which killed over 150 people in 1969 mainly in inland Nelson County. [ 113 ] [ 117 ] Between December and March, cold-air damming caused by the Appalachian Mountains can lead to significant snowfalls across the state, such as the January 2016 blizzard , which created the state's ...
The Buffalo Creek flood was a disaster that occurred on February 26, 1972, when the Pittston Coal Company's coal slurry impoundment dam #3, located on a hillside in Logan County, West Virginia, USA, burst four days after having been declared 'satisfactory' by a federal mine inspector. Out of a population of 5,000 people, 125 were killed, 1,121 ...
0–9. Great Chesapeake Bay Hurricane of 1769; 1804 New England hurricane; 1806 Great Coastal hurricane; 1815 North Carolina hurricane; 1821 Norfolk and Long Island hurricane
This is a list of accidents and disasters by death toll. It shows the number of fatalities associated with various explosions , structural fires , flood disasters , coal mine disasters , and other notable accidents caused by negligence connected to improper architecture , planning , construction , design , and more.