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County hazard profile

Forsyth, GA

Georgia · pop. 251,239 · FIPS 13117

Relatively Moderate
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Tornado
dominant hazard
$90M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

lower than most counties (28th percentile)

national median $15M/yr Forsyth $90M

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 86.13/100
national median ~50 higher than 86% of counties
Social vulnerabilityVery Low 10.62/100
national median ~50 among the lowest nationally
Community resilienceRelatively High 73.19/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (73rd percentile)

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Forsyth

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 66 flood-insurance claims totaling $928K in Forsyth since 1979. The costliest year was 2020 ($433K paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1979: $8,331 paid 1980: $14,572 paid 2004: $6,062 paid 2005: $15,548 paid 2008: $0 paid 2009: $48,993 paid 2011: $0 paid 2013: $161,746 paid 2014: $0 paid 2015: $55,396 paid 2016: $2,635 paid 2017: $0 paid 2018: $53,900 paid 2019: $2,169 paid 2020: $432,610 paid 2021: $0 paid 2022: $0 paid 2023: $0 paid 2024: $126,290 paid 2020 · $433K 1979 2024
$928K
total paid
$14,064
average claim
$257K
largest single claim
21%
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 Forsyth, GA and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Forsyth 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.