Property Atlas

County hazard profile

Brevard, FL

Florida · pop. 606,067 · FIPS 12009

Relatively High
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Hurricane
dominant hazard
$389M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the highest nationally

national median $15M/yr Brevard $389M

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 98.41/100
national median ~50 among the highest nationally
Social vulnerabilityRelatively Moderate 40.84/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (41st percentile)
Community resilienceRelatively High 63.36/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (63rd percentile)

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Brevard

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 5,685 flood-insurance claims totaling $68.9M in Brevard since 1978. The costliest year was 2017 ($21.2M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1978: $1,053 paid 1979: $37,165 paid 1980: $2,300 paid 1981: $57,592 paid 1982: $7,572 paid 1983: $13,467 paid 1984: $108,348 paid 1985: $1,463 paid 1986: $0 paid 1987: $30,983 paid 1988: $1,895 paid 1989: $178,967 paid 1990: $81 paid 1991: $5,607 paid 1992: $1,709 paid 1993: $14,473 paid 1994: $173,927 paid 1995: $1,183,386 paid 1996: $17,765 paid 1997: $22,674 paid 1998: $4,903 paid 1999: $827,094 paid 2000: $37,595 paid 2001: $176,794 paid 2002: $8,759 paid 2003: $662 paid 2004: $10,496,662 paid 2005: $2,521,190 paid 2006: $5,624 paid 2007: $5,786 paid 2008: $19,373,429 paid 2009: $1,456 paid 2010: $0 paid 2011: $128,102 paid 2012: $4,211 paid 2013: $60,901 paid 2014: $59,397 paid 2015: $34,970 paid 2016: $786,769 paid 2017: $21,223,766 paid 2018: $22,795 paid 2019: $45,713 paid 2020: $19,300 paid 2021: $174,589 paid 2022: $3,625,140 paid 2023: $56,660 paid 2024: $1,192,854 paid 2025: $6,153,730 paid 2026: $5,326 paid 2017 · $21.2M 1978 2026
$68.9M
total paid
$12,122
average claim
$637K
largest single claim
39%
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 Brevard, FL and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Brevard 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.