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County hazard profile

Lee, GA

Georgia · pop. 32,818 · FIPS 13177

Very Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Hurricane
dominant hazard
$12M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Lee $12M

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 29.39/100
national median ~50 lower than most counties (29th percentile)
Social vulnerabilityVery Low 13.39/100
national median ~50 among the lowest nationally
Community resilienceRelatively High 68.58/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (69th percentile)

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Lee

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 700 flood-insurance claims totaling $16.7M in Lee since 1978. The costliest year was 1994 ($6.8M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1978: $19,511 paid 1979: $15,591 paid 1981: $280 paid 1983: $83,706 paid 1984: $11,815 paid 1985: $5,806 paid 1990: $142,385 paid 1991: $30,773 paid 1992: $912 paid 1993: $0 paid 1994: $6,819,122 paid 1995: $347 paid 1996: $0 paid 1997: $474 paid 1998: $4,858,694 paid 2004: $0 paid 2005: $979,567 paid 2008: $397 paid 2009: $159,206 paid 2010: $8,920 paid 2014: $0 paid 2015: $1,252,195 paid 2017: $0 paid 2018: $161,415 paid 2020: $2,151,390 paid 2024: $0 paid 2025: $16,638 paid 1994 · $6.8M 1978 2025
$16.7M
total paid
$23,884
average claim
$305K
largest single claim
68%
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 Lee, GA and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Lee 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.