Flood — Fairfax, Virginia

2025-07-31 · near Burke, Fairfax, Virginia

Event narrative

Fairfax County EM reports that Burke Road at Heritage Square Drive is closed due to water over the road from Pahick Creek.

Wider weather episode

A slow moving cold front combined with a highly unstable atmosphere along with tropical moisture to produce slow moving thunderstorms with heavy rainfall. Some of these storms trained over the same areas, resulting in scattered to numerous instances of flash flooding. Total rainfall amounts in areas with flash flooding averaged two to four inches.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1270250. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.