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County hazard profile

Ascension, LA

Louisiana · pop. 126,426 · FIPS 22005

Relatively Moderate
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Hurricane
dominant hazard
$120M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

lower than most counties (37th percentile)

national median $15M/yr Ascension $120M

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 92.14/100
national median ~50 among the highest nationally
Social vulnerabilityRelatively Low 34.83/100
national median ~50 lower than most counties (35th percentile)
Community resilienceVery High 84.57/100
national median ~50 higher than 85% of counties

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Ascension

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 6,781 flood-insurance claims totaling $353.5M in Ascension since 1978. The costliest year was 2016 ($313.1M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1978: $4,494 paid 1979: $1,204,770 paid 1980: $511,447 paid 1981: $3,877 paid 1982: $8,405 paid 1983: $3,594,396 paid 1984: $111,628 paid 1985: $212,171 paid 1987: $2,906 paid 1988: $140,454 paid 1989: $10,031 paid 1990: $791,890 paid 1991: $282,592 paid 1992: $217,151 paid 1993: $1,207,055 paid 1994: $174,670 paid 1995: $352,548 paid 1996: $68,790 paid 1997: $385,878 paid 1998: $582,249 paid 1999: $6,869 paid 2000: $11,019 paid 2001: $4,433,392 paid 2002: $55,173 paid 2003: $123,196 paid 2004: $18,942 paid 2005: $2,890,258 paid 2006: $204,657 paid 2007: $7,693 paid 2008: $269,824 paid 2009: $286,617 paid 2010: $14,135 paid 2011: $48,368 paid 2012: $3,673,881 paid 2013: $372,401 paid 2014: $3,982,446 paid 2015: $139,483 paid 2016: $313,050,158 paid 2017: $122,828 paid 2018: $159,773 paid 2019: $845,872 paid 2020: $1,739,632 paid 2021: $10,882,559 paid 2022: $114,208 paid 2023: $0 paid 2024: $126,708 paid 2025: $6,627 paid 2026: $7,637 paid 2016 · $313.1M 1978 2026
$353.5M
total paid
$52,125
average claim
$1.0M
largest single claim
77%
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 Ascension, LA and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Ascension 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.