Junior Subordinated Debt - Additional Information (Detail) - USD ($) $ in Millions	12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2016	Dec. 31, 2015
First National (VA) Statutory Trust III [Member]
Financial Instruments Subject to Mandatory Redemption by Settlement Terms [Line Items]
Formation of wholly-owned subsidiary	Jul. 24, 2006
Preferred securities issued through pooled underwriting date	Jul. 31, 2006
Issuance of trust preferred securities	$ 4.0
LIBOR-indexed floating rate of interest	2.45%	1.93%
Junior subordinated debt	$ 4.1
Securities mandatory redemption date	Oct. 01, 2036
Maximum capital required for capital adequacy	25.00%
First National (VA) Statutory Trust II [Member]
Financial Instruments Subject to Mandatory Redemption by Settlement Terms [Line Items]
Formation of wholly-owned subsidiary	Jun. 08, 2004
Preferred securities issued through pooled underwriting date	Jun. 17, 2004
Issuance of trust preferred securities	$ 5.0
LIBOR-indexed floating rate of interest	3.59%	3.13%
Junior subordinated debt	$ 5.2
Securities mandatory redemption date	Jun. 17, 2034

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Effective interest rate for the funds borrowed under the debt agreement considering interest compounding and original issue discount or premium.

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
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-SubTopic 10
-Section S99
-Paragraph 1
-Subparagraph (SX 210.5-02.22(a)(1))
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Date the debt instrument was issued, in CCYY-MM-DD format.

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Including the current and noncurrent portions, the carrying value of junior subordinated long-term debt owed to unconsolidated subsidiary trusts as of the balance sheet date. Such debt places a lender in a lien position behind debt having a higher priority of repayment in liquidation of the entity's assets and was initially scheduled to be repaid after one year or beyond the normal operating cycle if longer.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 944
-SubTopic 210
-Section S99
-Paragraph 1
-Subparagraph (SX 210.7-03.16)
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-Name Accounting Standards Codification
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Date the preferred stock has been redeemed, in CCYY-MM-DD format.

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-Name Accounting Standards Codification
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The cash inflow from issuance of preferred stocks by a business trust or other special purpose entity, mainly established by a bank holding entity, to third party investors. The trust's assets are deeply subordinated debentures of the bank holding entity. Most trust preferred securities are subject to a mandatory redemption upon the repayment of the debentures.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Date the subsidiary of the limited liability company (LLC) or limited partnership (LP) was formed, in CCYY-MM-DD format.

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