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County hazard profile

Marion, FL

Florida · pop. 375,566 · FIPS 12083

Relatively High
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Lightning
dominant hazard
$128M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

near the national middle (40th percentile)

national median $15M/yr Marion $128M

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 94.72/100
national median ~50 among the highest nationally
Social vulnerabilityRelatively High 69.62/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (70th percentile)
Community resilienceVery Low 16.51/100
national median ~50 among the lowest nationally

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Marion

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 248 flood-insurance claims totaling $6.0M in Marion since 1979. The costliest year was 2017 ($3.3M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1979: $0 paid 1980: $4,330 paid 1981: $2,197 paid 1982: $141,232 paid 1983: $0 paid 1984: $0 paid 1985: $225 paid 1988: $55,751 paid 1991: $72 paid 1992: $27,055 paid 1993: $2,303 paid 1994: $19,369 paid 1995: $0 paid 1997: $0 paid 1998: $70,060 paid 1999: $7,146 paid 2001: $0 paid 2003: $0 paid 2004: $308,723 paid 2005: $39,921 paid 2007: $30,059 paid 2008: $29,865 paid 2009: $0 paid 2010: $96,845 paid 2011: $132,920 paid 2012: $145,323 paid 2013: $1,264 paid 2014: $575 paid 2015: $27,049 paid 2017: $3,316,946 paid 2018: $18,909 paid 2019: $23,201 paid 2020: $2,060 paid 2021: $0 paid 2022: $12,515 paid 2023: $1,458,651 paid 2024: $31,385 paid 2026: $0 paid 2017 · $3.3M 1979 2026
$6.0M
total paid
$24,218
average claim
$273K
largest single claim
49%
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 Marion, FL and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Marion 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.