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County hazard profile

Jessamine, KY

Kentucky · pop. 52,980 · FIPS 21113

Very Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Strong Wind
dominant hazard
$18M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Jessamine $18M

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 indexVery Low 39.79/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (40th percentile)
Social vulnerabilityVery Low 10.62/100
national median ~50 among the lowest nationally
Community resilienceRelatively Moderate 57.7/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (58th percentile)

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Jessamine

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 176 flood-insurance claims totaling $4.3M in Jessamine since 1978. The costliest year was 2025 ($1.6M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1978: $385,202 paid 1979: $7,520 paid 1983: $4,068 paid 1984: $17,129 paid 1988: $0 paid 1989: $285,100 paid 1994: $25,740 paid 1995: $2,617 paid 1997: $68,336 paid 2002: $33,829 paid 2003: $2,526 paid 2004: $4,685 paid 2006: $78,835 paid 2008: $31,323 paid 2009: $116,499 paid 2010: $1,456,531 paid 2015: $128,186 paid 2021: $140,065 paid 2025: $1,561,452 paid 2025 · $1.6M 1978 2025
$4.3M
total paid
$24,714
average claim
$170K
largest single claim
61%
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 Jessamine, KY and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Jessamine 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.