Levees / West Virginia / 2305210001

North Moorefield

Moorefield, Hardy County, West Virginia. On the South Fork South Branch Potomac River. USACE records 1,183 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Provisionally Accredited Levee (PAL) SystemUSACE oversight
People behind it
1,183
USACE figure
Structures
476
in the leveed area
Levee length
2.5
miles, plus 0.23 of floodwall
Leveed area
0.97
square miles
01

The federal record

System ID
2305210001
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Provisionally Accredited Levee (PAL) System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Low
Inspection rating
U
Inspection date
06/04/2018
Rehabilitation programme
Active
Responsible sponsor
Town of Moorefield
Waterway
South Fork South Branch Potomac River
Segments
1
USACE district
Baltimore
USACE division
North Atlantic Division
FEMA region
3
Congressional district
02
Consequence estimate
$187.9 million
Flood of record
11/01/1985

What this page does not tell you

It does not say whether any particular address is protected. A FEMA accreditation status describes this system measured against a design flood event, and USACE states that the database may not represent the totality of levees in the United States. If you need to know what applies to a specific property, your local floodplain administrator holds that answer. How to read an accreditation status.

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Where it is

Source: USACE National Levee Database, system 2305210001. Refreshed 2026-09-10. Values are reproduced as published. USACE updates the database irregularly and without a change feed, so the refresh date above is the age of what you are reading.