Property Atlas

County hazard profile

Butler, KS

Kansas · pop. 67,340 · FIPS 20015

Relatively Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Wildfire
dominant hazard
$42M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Butler $42M

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 74.4/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (74th percentile)
Social vulnerabilityVery Low 13.61/100
national median ~50 among the lowest nationally
Community resilienceRelatively High 67.27/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (67th percentile)

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Butler

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 505 flood-insurance claims totaling $12.7M in Butler since 1979. The costliest year was 1998 ($4.3M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1979: $1,574,651 paid 1980: $57 paid 1982: $6,050 paid 1983: $7,208 paid 1984: $172 paid 1985: $34,683 paid 1987: $66,860 paid 1989: $2,727 paid 1991: $2,406 paid 1993: $0 paid 1995: $209,165 paid 1997: $225,113 paid 1998: $4,296,824 paid 1999: $127,136 paid 2000: $7,469 paid 2003: $151,807 paid 2004: $0 paid 2005: $242,155 paid 2007: $152,461 paid 2008: $59,477 paid 2009: $1,705,996 paid 2010: $22,770 paid 2012: $0 paid 2013: $1,796 paid 2016: $630,429 paid 2017: $6,584 paid 2018: $389,344 paid 2019: $379,541 paid 2020: $4,527 paid 2022: $19,914 paid 2023: $0 paid 2025: $2,343,919 paid 1998 · $4.3M 1979 2025
$12.7M
total paid
$25,092
average claim
$573K
largest single claim
74%
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 Butler, KS and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Butler 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.