Property Atlas

County hazard profile

Dixie, FL

Florida · pop. 16,706 · FIPS 12029

Very Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Hurricane
dominant hazard
$9M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Dixie $9M

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 indexVery Low 35.5/100
national median ~50 lower than most counties (36th percentile)
Social vulnerabilityRelatively Moderate 57.09/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (57th percentile)
Community resilienceVery Low 2.99/100
national median ~50 among the lowest nationally

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Dixie

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 916 flood-insurance claims totaling $21.4M in Dixie since 1980. The costliest year was 2024 ($9.3M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1980: $1,010 paid 1982: $17,863 paid 1983: $0 paid 1984: $44,469 paid 1986: $33,360 paid 1987: $345 paid 1988: $0 paid 1991: $59,948 paid 1993: $1,503,825 paid 1995: $342,418 paid 1996: $3,101,754 paid 1998: $509,091 paid 2001: $0 paid 2003: $5,957 paid 2004: $59,105 paid 2005: $825,469 paid 2006: $53,540 paid 2008: $10,316 paid 2009: $41,883 paid 2014: $0 paid 2015: $48,230 paid 2016: $1,203,497 paid 2017: $0 paid 2018: $195,589 paid 2019: $23,815 paid 2021: $969,750 paid 2022: $0 paid 2023: $3,139,013 paid 2024: $9,252,089 paid 2024 · $9.3M 1980 2024
$21.4M
total paid
$23,409
average claim
$600K
largest single claim
95%
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 Dixie, FL and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Dixie 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.