Property Atlas

County hazard profile

Mitchell, GA

Georgia · pop. 21,741 · FIPS 13205

Relatively Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Hurricane
dominant hazard
$15M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Mitchell $15M

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 Low 63.04/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (63rd percentile)
Social vulnerabilityVery High 86.32/100
national median ~50 higher than 86% of counties
Community resilienceRelatively Low 22.01/100
national median ~50 among the lowest nationally

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Mitchell

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 100 flood-insurance claims totaling $2.1M in Mitchell since 1983. The costliest year was 1998 ($792K paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1983: $2,794 paid 1984: $17,767 paid 1985: $0 paid 1986: $1,254 paid 1991: $667 paid 1994: $634,061 paid 1995: $1,594 paid 1997: $1,322 paid 1998: $791,626 paid 2003: $9,380 paid 2004: $1,659 paid 2005: $29,009 paid 2006: $5,357 paid 2007: $0 paid 2009: $245,209 paid 2010: $0 paid 2011: $0 paid 2013: $180,215 paid 2015: $33,525 paid 2016: $137,031 paid 2017: $0 paid 2018: $0 paid 2020: $8,303 paid 2022: $0 paid 2024: $4,302 paid 1998 · $792K 1983 2024
$2.1M
total paid
$21,051
average claim
$192K
largest single claim
85%
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 Mitchell, GA and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Mitchell 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.