Property Atlas

County hazard profile

Colusa, CA

California · pop. 21,811 · FIPS 06011

Relatively Moderate
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Drought
dominant hazard
$41M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

Expected annual loss · all 3,232 U.S. counties

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Colusa $41M

A real dollar distribution: most counties sit far below a handful of high-exposure ones. A FEMA model of annual loss, not a record of disasters.

FEMA national percentile scores

FEMA/CDC score each county 0–100 against all others — the score is the national rank (RATING). Higher risk and vulnerability are worse; higher resilience is better.

FEMA risk indexRelatively Moderate 81.14/100
national median ~50 higher than 81% of counties
Social vulnerabilityRelatively Moderate 49.46/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (49th percentile)
Community resilienceRelatively Low 25.38/100
national median ~50 lower than most counties (25th percentile)

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Colusa

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 160 flood-insurance claims totaling $3.0M in Colusa since 1983. The costliest year was 1995 ($952K paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1983: $212,800 paid 1986: $158,701 paid 1993: $0 paid 1995: $952,245 paid 1996: $3,961 paid 1997: $3,899 paid 1998: $726,516 paid 2007: $0 paid 2012: $13,971 paid 2016: $0 paid 2017: $787,430 paid 2019: $82,029 paid 2024: $39,217 paid 1995 · $952K 1983 2024
$3.0M
total paid
$18,630
average claim
$350K
largest single claim
29%
in high-risk flood zones (A/V)

RECORDED — these are actual paid NFIP claims (a redacted census from OpenFEMA), not a model. They are the realized counterpart to the FEMA risk score above: one is what happened and got paid, the other is what a model predicts.

Scope: these are flood-insurance claims, so they undercount flooding where owners were uninsured — read this as "what NFIP paid here," not "every flood." County-level totals, not a per-property or per-address verdict. Verify a specific address and buy coverage at FloodSmart.gov; the underlying data is OpenFEMA NFIP Redacted Claims.

What these figures mean

  • RATING — the FEMA risk score, expected loss, social vulnerability, and resilience are FEMA/CDC models, not records of disasters that happened. The 0–100 scores are already national percentiles.
  • MEASURED — population is a recorded census figure.
  • COMPUTED — the county's rank within the dollar-loss distribution is our placement over the 3,232 counties.
  • CONTEXT — the note below is framing, not a measurement.

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What this is — and is not

This is FEMA/CDC modeled hazard exposure for Colusa, CA and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Colusa is a good or bad place to live — hazard exposure is not place quality, and a county can't opt out of its geography. It is not a per-property or per-address risk assessment, not a prediction of any specific disaster, and not insurance advice. For site-specific risk use a per-property assessment; for the underlying model see FEMA National Risk Index.