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County hazard profile

Riley, KS

Kansas · pop. 71,953 · FIPS 20161

Relatively Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Winter Weather
dominant hazard
$29M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Riley $29M

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 58.46/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (58th percentile)
Social vulnerabilityVery Low 10.62/100
national median ~50 among the lowest nationally
Community resilienceRelatively High 64.09/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (64th percentile)

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Riley

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 404 flood-insurance claims totaling $9.2M in Riley since 1981. The costliest year was 2018 ($4.4M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1981: $0 paid 1984: $1,066 paid 1985: $0 paid 1989: $3,295 paid 1990: $32,138 paid 1992: $68,542 paid 1993: $1,693,890 paid 1994: $0 paid 1995: $15,156 paid 1996: $313 paid 1999: $24,543 paid 2001: $48,781 paid 2002: $41,528 paid 2004: $77,903 paid 2005: $1,326 paid 2007: $98,696 paid 2008: $90,787 paid 2009: $3,248 paid 2010: $378,034 paid 2011: $1,982,602 paid 2012: $0 paid 2013: $0 paid 2014: $2,425 paid 2015: $42,511 paid 2016: $0 paid 2017: $3,368 paid 2018: $4,356,749 paid 2019: $199,149 paid 2021: $0 paid 2022: $1,715 paid 2025: $49,532 paid 2018 · $4.4M 1981 2025
$9.2M
total paid
$22,815
average claim
$500K
largest single claim
33%
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 Riley, KS and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Riley 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.