Land use is state and local policy. The eastern third of Virginia is known as the Tidewater part of the state. I’ll give you one guess why.
Just most of it. Along most of the VA/WV border you’ve got mostly limestone, not coal, speaking as one who’s done his share of crawling around inside that limestone. You’ve got to go a long way down before you get to coal country, and that’s in the most sparsely-populated corner of the state. Meanwhile, the areas of the Commonwealth that would be subject to increased coastal/estuary flooding in the event of continued global warming are quite heavily populated.
That’s certainly true in parts of Virginia, but a larger and larger percentage of Virginians are growing up in cities and suburbs, without guns.