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County hazard profile

Solano, CA

California · pop. 452,833 · FIPS 06095

Relatively High
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Drought
dominant hazard
$292M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the highest nationally

national median $15M/yr Solano $292M

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 High 97.01/100
national median ~50 among the highest nationally
Social vulnerabilityRelatively Low 25.19/100
national median ~50 lower than most counties (25th percentile)
Community resilienceRelatively High 71.82/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (72nd percentile)

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Solano

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 594 flood-insurance claims totaling $11.0M in Solano since 1978. The costliest year was 2005 ($4.3M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1978: $660 paid 1980: $627 paid 1981: $0 paid 1982: $458,144 paid 1983: $301,371 paid 1984: $0 paid 1985: $0 paid 1986: $1,277,860 paid 1987: $0 paid 1989: $0 paid 1990: $0 paid 1992: $4,466 paid 1993: $6,795 paid 1995: $97,932 paid 1996: $96,621 paid 1997: $582,002 paid 1998: $436,326 paid 2000: $0 paid 2001: $2,843 paid 2002: $665,445 paid 2003: $1,204 paid 2004: $0 paid 2005: $4,325,120 paid 2006: $368,633 paid 2008: $329,009 paid 2009: $32,705 paid 2010: $0 paid 2011: $87,129 paid 2012: $172,272 paid 2013: $0 paid 2015: $930 paid 2016: $62,825 paid 2017: $740,978 paid 2018: $307 paid 2019: $37,950 paid 2020: $0 paid 2021: $75,896 paid 2023: $757,496 paid 2024: $31,480 paid 2026: $0 paid 2005 · $4.3M 1978 2026
$11.0M
total paid
$18,443
average claim
$487K
largest single claim
54%
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 Solano, CA and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Solano 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.