Rockingham County, VA Hurricane Preparedness: Flood Elevation (2026)

3(d) sets elevation and anchoring standards specific to manufactured homes and recreational vehicles placed within identified flood hazard areas, a provision aimed squarely at the storm-driven flooding risk manufactured housing faces. 3. Homes placed or substantially improved in an existing manufactured home park or subdivision, or replacement homes on private property, must have the lowest floor elevated no lower than two feet above the base flood elevation and must be securely anchored to an adequately anchored foundation system to resist flotation, collapse and lateral movement.

Recreational vehicles placed on a site are exempt from the elevation and anchoring rules only if they remain on the site fewer than ninety consecutive days, are fully licensed and ready for highway use, meaning on wheels or a jacking system, attached only by quick-disconnect utilities and security devices, and carry no permanently attached additions. 3(e) further requires all residential structures in the special flood hazard area, including manufactured homes, to have an engineered foundation design and a masonry perimeter wall with all required flood venting, though the wall need not be load-bearing.