Property Atlas

County hazard profile

Fayette, IA

Iowa · pop. 19,509 · FIPS 19065

Relatively Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Drought
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 Fayette $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 50.89/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (51st percentile)
Social vulnerabilityRelatively Moderate 55.41/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (55th percentile)
Community resilienceRelatively High 73.82/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (74th percentile)

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Fayette

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 94 flood-insurance claims totaling $866K in Fayette since 1979. The costliest year was 2017 ($168K paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1979: $9,172 paid 1984: $39,958 paid 1991: $157,548 paid 1993: $10,773 paid 1999: $66,662 paid 2000: $3,869 paid 2006: $3,665 paid 2008: $55,259 paid 2010: $82,849 paid 2013: $1,748 paid 2014: $35,113 paid 2015: $0 paid 2016: $129,455 paid 2017: $167,544 paid 2020: $46,864 paid 2021: $55,145 paid 2017 · $168K 1979 2021
$866K
total paid
$9,209
average claim
$104K
largest single claim
78%
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 Fayette, IA and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Fayette 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.