Property Atlas

County hazard profile

Cowley, KS

Kansas · pop. 34,541 · FIPS 20035

Relatively Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Wildfire
dominant hazard
$27M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Cowley $27M

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 69.12/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (69th percentile)
Social vulnerabilityRelatively Moderate 44.59/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (45th percentile)
Community resilienceRelatively High 61.01/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (61st percentile)

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Cowley

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 142 flood-insurance claims totaling $2.1M in Cowley since 1979. The costliest year was 1998 ($1.1M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1979: $12,752 paid 1981: $3,119 paid 1982: $5,197 paid 1985: $0 paid 1986: $7,108 paid 1989: $11,694 paid 1993: $8,762 paid 1995: $268,249 paid 1998: $1,084,645 paid 2000: $0 paid 2002: $3,237 paid 2007: $133,585 paid 2008: $2,655 paid 2010: $0 paid 2017: $908 paid 2019: $570,830 paid 1998 · $1.1M 1979 2019
$2.1M
total paid
$14,878
average claim
$183K
largest single claim
82%
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 Cowley, KS and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Cowley 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.