Property Atlas

County hazard profile

McLean, KY

Kentucky · pop. 9,152 · FIPS 21149

Very Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Ice Storm
dominant hazard
$9M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr McLean $9M

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 40.71/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (41st percentile)
Social vulnerabilityRelatively High 78.4/100
national median ~50 higher than 78% of counties
Community resilienceRelatively Moderate 51.56/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (52nd percentile)

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in McLean

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 134 flood-insurance claims totaling $2.0M in McLean since 1984. The costliest year was 2025 ($987K paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1984: $20,510 paid 1989: $47,531 paid 1990: $11,180 paid 1991: $4,421 paid 1993: $0 paid 1994: $1,051 paid 1997: $481,755 paid 2008: $1,580 paid 2010: $7,756 paid 2011: $248,656 paid 2012: $0 paid 2016: $0 paid 2020: $99,883 paid 2022: $68,710 paid 2025: $986,968 paid 2025 · $987K 1984 2025
$2.0M
total paid
$14,776
average claim
$182K
largest single claim
84%
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 McLean, KY and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether McLean 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.