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County hazard profile

Tippecanoe, IN

Indiana · pop. 186,025 · FIPS 18157

Relatively Moderate
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Cold Wave
dominant hazard
$49M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Tippecanoe $49M

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 81.84/100
national median ~50 higher than 82% of counties
Social vulnerabilityRelatively Low 29.77/100
national median ~50 lower than most counties (30th percentile)
Community resilienceRelatively High 65.14/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (65th percentile)

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Tippecanoe

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 217 flood-insurance claims totaling $3.2M in Tippecanoe since 1979. The costliest year was 2013 ($872K paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1979: $125 paid 1980: $2,062 paid 1981: $6,809 paid 1982: $1,479 paid 1983: $3,580 paid 1985: $14,694 paid 1989: $1,779 paid 1990: $65,744 paid 1991: $10,514 paid 1993: $1,918 paid 1994: $7,850 paid 1996: $8,439 paid 1998: $7,182 paid 1999: $910 paid 2003: $843,914 paid 2004: $118,661 paid 2005: $293,133 paid 2007: $18,681 paid 2008: $397,566 paid 2009: $83,599 paid 2010: $151,923 paid 2011: $85,923 paid 2013: $872,485 paid 2014: $57,786 paid 2015: $33,049 paid 2017: $23,485 paid 2018: $111,058 paid 2024: $0 paid 2013 · $872K 1979 2024
$3.2M
total paid
$14,859
average claim
$117K
largest single claim
73%
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 Tippecanoe, IN and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Tippecanoe 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.