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County hazard profile

Assumption, LA

Louisiana · pop. 21,017 · FIPS 22007

Relatively Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Drought
dominant hazard
$20M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Assumption $20M

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 70.29/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (70th percentile)
Social vulnerabilityVery High 85.21/100
national median ~50 higher than 85% of counties
Community resilienceRelatively Moderate 53.21/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (53rd percentile)

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Assumption

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 883 flood-insurance claims totaling $5.1M in Assumption since 1979. The costliest year was 1991 ($938K paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1979: $172,733 paid 1980: $165,963 paid 1982: $5,101 paid 1983: $76,858 paid 1984: $7,229 paid 1985: $27,913 paid 1987: $3,658 paid 1988: $12,178 paid 1989: $7,491 paid 1990: $6,182 paid 1991: $937,764 paid 1992: $109,974 paid 1993: $13,498 paid 1994: $7,115 paid 1995: $45,673 paid 1996: $51,569 paid 1997: $172,792 paid 1998: $35,002 paid 2000: $0 paid 2001: $596,614 paid 2002: $86,670 paid 2003: $300,243 paid 2004: $40,624 paid 2005: $60,843 paid 2008: $184,049 paid 2009: $306,036 paid 2011: $53,340 paid 2012: $0 paid 2013: $3,118 paid 2014: $315,057 paid 2015: $59,407 paid 2016: $22,934 paid 2017: $93,895 paid 2018: $118,986 paid 2019: $169,999 paid 2021: $596,627 paid 2024: $278,925 paid 1991 · $938K 1979 2024
$5.1M
total paid
$5,828
average claim
$126K
largest single claim
57%
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 Assumption, LA and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Assumption 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.