Blog · October 14, 2026 · Virginia
Using the Greene County Flood Zone Map
Flood zones are set by FEMA, and checking one near Shenandoah National Park takes a few minutes.
Main page: Greene County, VA GIS & Parcel Viewer (official map link, county facts and neighboring maps).
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Ahead of any purchase around Stanardsville, pull up the Greene County flood zone map: FEMA's zone label affects insurance, permits and resale. What this Greene County guide covers: finding the address on FEMA's map, decoding A, AE and X, and pairing it with the Greene County webGIS parcel viewer.
Checking the Greene County flood zone map step by step
For a more interactive look, open the National Flood Hazard Layer viewer, where zone shading sits over a photo base, for land near Shenandoah National Park included. Vacant ground around Shenandoah National Park is still easy to locate: zoom in from US Route 29 and click the spot.
Pulling up a parcel
Your first stop is the Greene County webGIS parcel viewer; it includes every tax parcel from Stanardsville to Amicus. When a rural tract has no street number, follow US Route 29 on the aerial and click the parcel itself, which applies near Shenandoah National Park as much as anywhere. For a parcel near Shenandoah National Park, the parcel card normally shows the owner of record, acreage on the tax roll, a parcel ID and often a sale date.
What to request from a seller
If the land is near Barboursville, ask the listing agent about past flood claims before closing; getting a quote early avoids surprises.
Zones on the Greene County flood zone map
Zone AE carries a published BFE, which plain A zones lack; that elevation drives building rules near Amicus. For land near Amicus, a shaded X area is moderate risk, between the 1% and 0.2% annual chance floods; unshaded X means minimal mapped risk.
Field tips
Most viewers work in a phone browser, which helps when you're standing on land near Stanardsville, but coverage can be spotty out of town. A printout of the tract near Burtonville keeps working without signal.
Low spots and local drainage
Low-lying fields near Burtonville may not have detailed mapping, so ask neighbors about past flooding. Marshy spots near Barboursville can limit building too; the National Wetlands Inventory mapper shows mapped wetlands.
Legal descriptions in Virginia
Older tracts around Dawsonville are often described by metes and bounds, a series of courses and distances from a starting point. Platted lots around Stanardsville usually use lot and block from a recorded plat instead, which is simpler to follow. Keep the legal description for land near Dawsonville before you request a deed or survey.
Lining it up with the parcel map
FEMA doesn't draw property lines, so pair it with the Greene County webGIS parcel viewer to see exactly which lot near Barboursville you're looking at.
What the map can't tell you
Acreage on the record is an estimate; just a licensed surveyor establishes the real corners on land around Shenandoah National Park. Closer to Shenandoah National Park, records update in batches, so a deed recorded last month might lag behind.
Land on the county line
The county meets Albemarle County, Madison County, Orange County, Page County, and Rockingham County; every one of them runs a separate parcel map around Burtonville. Acreage along the edge near Dawsonville may show up across two assessors' files, so check the neighboring map before you assume the acreage. On ground around Dawsonville, the Platbookmapper state page links every bordering county map across Virginia.
Recorded documents worth pulling
The map is an index, not the title: deeds, subdivision plats and easements for land near Burtonville are filed with the Clerk of the Circuit Court. For a tract near Shenandoah National Park, have ready the instrument number listed on the parcel record so staff can find the deed fast.
Getting your bearings
Stanardsville holds the county offices, home to the main records offices. Smaller places on the map include Amicus, Barnes, Barboursville, and Burtonville. About 21,301 people call Greene County home (Census estimate, 2023) across roughly 156 square miles. The county dates to 1838, and some chains of title near Dyke are long. Features like Shenandoah National Park make handy reference points on the map.
Money questions tied to the zone
If a building sits in a Special Flood Hazard Area and the loan is federally backed or regulated, the lender will require flood insurance in communities in the NFIP, for land near Dawsonville included. Remodeling a house in a zone near Dyke usually means extra permit review; ask the local floodplain administrator early.
Questions about the Greene County flood zone map
Is Zone X safe from flooding around Burtonville?
Good question; X zones around Stanardsville are lower risk, not no risk; many owners near Amicus buy coverage anyway.
What does an AE label mean for a lot near Shenandoah National Park?
It depends, but an AE zone has a 1% annual chance of flooding and a base flood elevation, so builders near Burtonville design to that elevation.
Is my property near Stanardsville in a flood zone?
Usually, search the address near Stanardsville on FEMA's Flood Map Service Center; no account is needed.
How do I get a property removed from a flood zone around Shenandoah National Park?
In most cases, FEMA's LOMA process is the usual route when a building near Stanardsville sits above the base flood elevation; a surveyor's elevation data supports it.
Where do I ask about an assessment near Barnes?
For acreage around Dyke, values are the Commissioner of the Revenue or real estate assessment office's job; recorded documents belong to the Clerk of the Circuit Court.
Open the official Greene County, VA parcel map See it in the Platbookmapper directory
Not a survey. County GIS and tax parcel maps are assessment and planning layers. They are not a substitute for a recorded plat, deed, or licensed survey, especially for fences, setbacks, or boundary disputes.