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County hazard profile

Sumter, FL

Florida · pop. 129,698 · FIPS 12119

Relatively Moderate
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Hurricane
dominant hazard
$46M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Sumter $46M

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 87.6/100
national median ~50 higher than 88% of counties
Social vulnerabilityVery High 90.04/100
national median ~50 among the highest nationally
Community resilienceRelatively Moderate 46.98/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (47th percentile)

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Sumter

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 123 flood-insurance claims totaling $1.5M in Sumter since 1978. The costliest year was 2024 ($758K paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1978: $0 paid 1979: $1,599 paid 1987: $79 paid 1995: $23,236 paid 1996: $750 paid 1997: $39,137 paid 1998: $66,002 paid 2001: $8,872 paid 2002: $6,983 paid 2003: $104,421 paid 2004: $87,908 paid 2005: $175,000 paid 2006: $7,043 paid 2008: $0 paid 2010: $19,998 paid 2011: $33,319 paid 2012: $586 paid 2015: $0 paid 2017: $113,167 paid 2018: $0 paid 2019: $8,046 paid 2021: $0 paid 2022: $0 paid 2023: $0 paid 2024: $757,876 paid 2024 · $758K 1978 2024
$1.5M
total paid
$11,821
average claim
$175K
largest single claim
50%
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 Sumter, FL and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Sumter 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.