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County hazard profile

Sedgwick, KS

Kansas · pop. 523,609 · FIPS 20173

Relatively High
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Ice Storm
dominant hazard
$256M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

higher than 79% of counties

national median $15M/yr Sedgwick $256M

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 High 96.6/100
national median ~50 among the highest nationally
Social vulnerabilityRelatively Low 29.93/100
national median ~50 lower than most counties (30th percentile)
Community resilienceRelatively High 70.39/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (70th percentile)

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Sedgwick

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 983 flood-insurance claims totaling $14.1M in Sedgwick since 1978. The costliest year was 1998 ($3.2M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1978: $14,929 paid 1979: $109,669 paid 1980: $19,869 paid 1981: $1,882 paid 1982: $3,115 paid 1983: $289,489 paid 1984: $0 paid 1985: $128,552 paid 1986: $3,303 paid 1987: $391,879 paid 1988: $0 paid 1989: $194,433 paid 1990: $0 paid 1991: $18,665 paid 1992: $46,332 paid 1993: $626,412 paid 1995: $678,207 paid 1997: $868,318 paid 1998: $3,205,652 paid 1999: $81,807 paid 2000: $4,194 paid 2001: $752 paid 2002: $7,356 paid 2003: $345,811 paid 2004: $977 paid 2005: $58,454 paid 2007: $66,265 paid 2008: $1,822,237 paid 2009: $1,942,920 paid 2010: $47,963 paid 2011: $3,439 paid 2012: $41,156 paid 2013: $0 paid 2014: $314 paid 2015: $6,633 paid 2016: $1,094,400 paid 2017: $0 paid 2018: $32,319 paid 2019: $458,580 paid 2021: $34,979 paid 2022: $45,597 paid 2023: $0 paid 2024: $953 paid 2025: $1,424,149 paid 1998 · $3.2M 1978 2025
$14.1M
total paid
$14,366
average claim
$350K
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 Sedgwick, KS and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Sedgwick 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.