Property Atlas

County hazard profile

Avoyelles, LA

Louisiana · pop. 39,654 · FIPS 22009

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 Avoyelles $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 73/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (73rd percentile)
Social vulnerabilityVery High 97.9/100
national median ~50 among the highest nationally
Community resilienceRelatively High 63.07/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (63rd percentile)

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Avoyelles

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 1,560 flood-insurance claims totaling $12.3M in Avoyelles since 1978. The costliest year was 2017 ($1.8M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1978: $5,383 paid 1979: $1,106,668 paid 1980: $319,455 paid 1981: $67,849 paid 1982: $117,389 paid 1983: $614,555 paid 1984: $33,627 paid 1985: $10,543 paid 1987: $3,162 paid 1988: $4,230 paid 1989: $50,348 paid 1990: $84,911 paid 1991: $371,216 paid 1992: $37,412 paid 1993: $90,119 paid 1994: $79,336 paid 1995: $446,296 paid 1996: $10,405 paid 1997: $645,040 paid 1998: $29,019 paid 1999: $73,569 paid 2000: $28,887 paid 2001: $138,287 paid 2002: $53,817 paid 2003: $25,909 paid 2004: $104,105 paid 2005: $225,367 paid 2006: $30,385 paid 2007: $50,238 paid 2008: $1,488,819 paid 2009: $40,591 paid 2010: $221,752 paid 2011: $1,221,339 paid 2012: $107,288 paid 2013: $311,781 paid 2014: $111,420 paid 2015: $95,329 paid 2016: $908,750 paid 2017: $1,846,673 paid 2018: $99,446 paid 2019: $706,672 paid 2020: $40,205 paid 2021: $50,729 paid 2022: $18,428 paid 2024: $163,500 paid 2025: $5,830 paid 2026: $0 paid 2017 · $1.8M 1978 2026
$12.3M
total paid
$7,882
average claim
$239K
largest single claim
66%
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 Avoyelles, LA and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Avoyelles 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.