Property Atlas

County hazard profile

Claiborne, LA

Louisiana · pop. 14,160 · FIPS 22027

Very Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Ice Storm
dominant hazard
$7M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Claiborne $7M

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 41.73/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (42nd percentile)
Social vulnerabilityVery High 98.6/100
national median ~50 among the highest nationally
Community resilienceVery Low 7.6/100
national median ~50 among the lowest nationally

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Claiborne

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 65 flood-insurance claims totaling $1.8M in Claiborne since 1990. The costliest year was 2016 ($1.6M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1990: $77,999 paid 1991: $44,433 paid 1997: $19,337 paid 1999: $20,014 paid 2001: $0 paid 2003: $7,167 paid 2005: $7,591 paid 2009: $25,250 paid 2016: $1,553,106 paid 2019: $81,362 paid 2023: $0 paid 2016 · $1.6M 1990 2023
$1.8M
total paid
$28,250
average claim
$211K
largest single claim
63%
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 Claiborne, LA and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Claiborne 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.