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County hazard profile

Allen, LA

Louisiana · pop. 22,708 · FIPS 22003

Relatively Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Hurricane
dominant hazard
$14M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Allen $14M

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 50.7/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (51st percentile)
Social vulnerabilityRelatively High 60.56/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (61st percentile)
Community resilienceRelatively Low 38.99/100
national median ~50 lower than most counties (39th percentile)

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Allen

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 442 flood-insurance claims totaling $9.5M in Allen since 1979. The costliest year was 2020 ($2.7M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1979: $105,141 paid 1980: $13,817 paid 1981: $4,022 paid 1982: $134,470 paid 1983: $256,180 paid 1984: $71,922 paid 1985: $43,477 paid 1988: $0 paid 1989: $687,184 paid 1990: $7,424 paid 1991: $11,310 paid 1992: $732 paid 1994: $37,411 paid 1995: $776,960 paid 1997: $45,002 paid 1998: $73,958 paid 1999: $536 paid 2001: $183,138 paid 2002: $237,888 paid 2004: $87,760 paid 2005: $202,829 paid 2006: $287,329 paid 2008: $26,965 paid 2009: $13,900 paid 2011: $0 paid 2012: $97,955 paid 2013: $7,394 paid 2014: $773 paid 2015: $47,489 paid 2016: $453,689 paid 2017: $437,734 paid 2018: $24,772 paid 2019: $548,137 paid 2020: $2,660,726 paid 2021: $0 paid 2024: $1,870,799 paid 2020 · $2.7M 1979 2024
$9.5M
total paid
$21,400
average claim
$295K
largest single claim
50%
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 Allen, LA and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Allen 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.