Property Atlas

County hazard profile

Lee, IA

Iowa · pop. 33,538 · FIPS 19111

Relatively Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Hail
dominant hazard
$23M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Lee $23M

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 62.95/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (63rd percentile)
Social vulnerabilityRelatively Moderate 43.29/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (43rd percentile)
Community resilienceVery High 84.73/100
national median ~50 higher than 85% of counties

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Lee

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 141 flood-insurance claims totaling $4.0M in Lee since 1979. The costliest year was 2008 ($1.4M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1979: $6,020 paid 1980: $40,073 paid 1984: $306 paid 1985: $39,995 paid 1992: $605 paid 1993: $1,135,369 paid 1996: $26,859 paid 1997: $4,977 paid 2001: $710,430 paid 2008: $1,414,736 paid 2009: $22,174 paid 2010: $18,313 paid 2013: $34,357 paid 2014: $28,254 paid 2019: $489,674 paid 2023: $15,082 paid 2008 · $1.4M 1979 2023
$4.0M
total paid
$28,278
average claim
$811K
largest single claim
65%
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, IA 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.