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County hazard profile

Knott, KY

Kentucky · pop. 14,224 · FIPS 21119

Relatively Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Landslide
dominant hazard
$12M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Knott $12M

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 52.1/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (52nd percentile)
Social vulnerabilityVery High 81.01/100
national median ~50 higher than 81% of counties
Community resilienceVery Low 4.58/100
national median ~50 among the lowest nationally

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Knott

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 204 flood-insurance claims totaling $6.6M in Knott since 1978. The costliest year was 2022 ($5.0M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1978: $5,527 paid 1981: $39,292 paid 1984: $315,186 paid 1989: $22,271 paid 1991: $0 paid 1992: $1,614 paid 1994: $552 paid 1995: $17,881 paid 1998: $38,043 paid 2001: $38,003 paid 2003: $212,436 paid 2004: $11,421 paid 2005: $0 paid 2007: $26,712 paid 2012: $50,668 paid 2014: $8,856 paid 2022: $4,976,374 paid 2023: $657 paid 2024: $35,736 paid 2025: $788,778 paid 2022 · $5.0M 1978 2025
$6.6M
total paid
$32,304
average claim
$620K
largest single claim
60%
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 Knott, KY and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Knott 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.