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County hazard profile

Cameron, LA

Louisiana · pop. 5,615 · FIPS 22023

Very Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Lightning
dominant hazard
$11M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Cameron $11M

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 indexVery Low 33.65/100
national median ~50 lower than most counties (34th percentile)
Social vulnerabilityRelatively Moderate 45.39/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (45th percentile)
Community resilienceVery High 98.73/100
national median ~50 among the highest nationally

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Cameron

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 3,470 flood-insurance claims totaling $210.0M in Cameron since 1978. The costliest year was 2005 ($105.3M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1978: $884 paid 1979: $27,455 paid 1980: $37,553 paid 1981: $7,607 paid 1982: $240,564 paid 1983: $9,614 paid 1985: $3,029 paid 1986: $194,882 paid 1988: $27,447 paid 1989: $746,426 paid 1990: $5,241 paid 1991: $24,157 paid 1992: $0 paid 1993: $58,523 paid 1994: $62,772 paid 1995: $59,610 paid 1996: $100,827 paid 1997: $409,687 paid 1998: $684,057 paid 2001: $29,814 paid 2002: $65,573 paid 2004: $64,822 paid 2005: $105,329,818 paid 2006: $42,091 paid 2008: $62,437,648 paid 2011: $51,801 paid 2013: $154,899 paid 2015: $0 paid 2016: $229,616 paid 2017: $15,497 paid 2019: $41,003 paid 2020: $38,209,656 paid 2023: $592,353 paid 2024: $19,193 paid 2025: $0 paid 2005 · $105.3M 1978 2025
$210.0M
total paid
$60,514
average claim
$1.0M
largest single claim
92%
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 Cameron, LA and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Cameron 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.