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County hazard profile

Shawnee, KS

Kansas · pop. 178,851 · FIPS 20177

Relatively Moderate
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Winter Weather
dominant hazard
$75M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Shawnee $75M

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 Moderate 88.04/100
national median ~50 higher than 88% of counties
Social vulnerabilityRelatively Low 35.31/100
national median ~50 lower than most counties (35th percentile)
Community resilienceVery High 85.81/100
national median ~50 higher than 86% of counties

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Shawnee

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 351 flood-insurance claims totaling $3.6M in Shawnee since 1978. The costliest year was 2007 ($1.4M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1978: $0 paid 1979: $499 paid 1980: $0 paid 1981: $34,678 paid 1982: $198,747 paid 1984: $0 paid 1987: $5,347 paid 1989: $0 paid 1990: $0 paid 1992: $0 paid 1993: $180,594 paid 1994: $0 paid 1995: $980 paid 1996: $135 paid 1999: $4,011 paid 2001: $1,686 paid 2004: $0 paid 2005: $1,117,190 paid 2007: $1,426,722 paid 2008: $5,127 paid 2009: $10,042 paid 2010: $4,389 paid 2012: $1,974 paid 2014: $17,578 paid 2015: $277,121 paid 2016: $130,717 paid 2017: $7,877 paid 2019: $28,322 paid 2020: $152,381 paid 2021: $0 paid 2023: $1,748 paid 2024: $12,222 paid 2025: $0 paid 2026: $7,185 paid 2007 · $1.4M 1978 2026
$3.6M
total paid
$10,334
average claim
$162K
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 Shawnee, KS and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Shawnee 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.