Property Atlas

County hazard profile

Acadia, LA

Louisiana · pop. 57,475 · FIPS 22001

Relatively Moderate
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Hurricane
dominant hazard
$51M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Acadia $51M

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 88.61/100
national median ~50 higher than 89% of counties
Social vulnerabilityVery High 86.74/100
national median ~50 higher than 87% of counties
Community resilienceRelatively Low 30.34/100
national median ~50 lower than most counties (30th percentile)

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Acadia

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 1,481 flood-insurance claims totaling $36.9M in Acadia since 1978. The costliest year was 2016 ($22.3M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1978: $2,899 paid 1979: $14,047 paid 1980: $807,044 paid 1981: $2,324 paid 1982: $45,882 paid 1983: $510 paid 1984: $0 paid 1985: $96,211 paid 1986: $1,409 paid 1989: $0 paid 1990: $1,500 paid 1991: $23,747 paid 1992: $1,719 paid 1993: $82,553 paid 1994: $14,714 paid 1995: $29,678 paid 1996: $22,086 paid 1997: $26,351 paid 1998: $26,920 paid 1999: $27,058 paid 2000: $1,021 paid 2001: $48,573 paid 2002: $59,039 paid 2003: $77,591 paid 2004: $361,040 paid 2005: $319,619 paid 2006: $123,711 paid 2007: $13,360 paid 2008: $42,749 paid 2009: $75,539 paid 2012: $484,177 paid 2013: $6,002,961 paid 2014: $216,399 paid 2015: $1,525 paid 2016: $22,337,741 paid 2017: $76,757 paid 2018: $5,379 paid 2019: $32,451 paid 2020: $35,299 paid 2021: $107,283 paid 2022: $35,617 paid 2023: $70,000 paid 2024: $43,493 paid 2025: $5,125,702 paid 2026: $10,000 paid 2016 · $22.3M 1978 2026
$36.9M
total paid
$24,938
average claim
$500K
largest single claim
63%
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 Acadia, LA and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Acadia 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.