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County hazard profile

Bullitt, KY

Kentucky · pop. 82,200 · FIPS 21029

Relatively Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Strong Wind
dominant hazard
$46M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Bullitt $46M

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 71.76/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (72nd percentile)
Social vulnerabilityVery Low 10.62/100
national median ~50 among the lowest nationally
Community resilienceRelatively High 73.66/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (74th percentile)

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Bullitt

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 359 flood-insurance claims totaling $6.1M in Bullitt since 1978. The costliest year was 1997 ($3.2M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1978: $35,922 paid 1979: $1,256 paid 1983: $18,200 paid 1984: $0 paid 1985: $2,834 paid 1989: $303,952 paid 1990: $73,250 paid 1993: $2,282 paid 1994: $9,636 paid 1995: $39,553 paid 1996: $47,523 paid 1997: $3,237,888 paid 2000: $8,372 paid 2007: $4,716 paid 2008: $9,142 paid 2009: $5,789 paid 2010: $66,878 paid 2011: $182,689 paid 2015: $175,745 paid 2017: $1,631 paid 2018: $165,137 paid 2019: $3,932 paid 2022: $8,737 paid 2023: $89,481 paid 2024: $2,245 paid 2025: $1,589,966 paid 1997 · $3.2M 1978 2025
$6.1M
total paid
$16,955
average claim
$220K
largest single claim
76%
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 Bullitt, KY and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Bullitt 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.