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County hazard profile

East Baton Rouge, LA

Louisiana · pop. 456,512 · FIPS 22033

Relatively High
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Tornado
dominant hazard
$267M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

higher than 82% of counties

national median $15M/yr East Baton Rouge $267M

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 High 97.96/100
national median ~50 among the highest nationally
Social vulnerabilityRelatively High 66.38/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (66th percentile)
Community resilienceRelatively Moderate 59.64/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (60th percentile)

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in East Baton Rouge

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 22,558 flood-insurance claims totaling $1.31B in East Baton Rouge since 1978. The costliest year was 2016 ($1.08B paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1978: $41,333 paid 1979: $2,677,791 paid 1980: $1,045,915 paid 1981: $6,806 paid 1982: $382,816 paid 1983: $24,368,416 paid 1984: $95,991 paid 1985: $266,078 paid 1986: $229,914 paid 1987: $81,562 paid 1988: $221,335 paid 1989: $2,855,375 paid 1990: $5,250,439 paid 1991: $2,297,619 paid 1992: $1,994,924 paid 1993: $10,563,519 paid 1994: $667,108 paid 1995: $8,340,006 paid 1996: $659,181 paid 1997: $1,118,743 paid 1998: $294,084 paid 1999: $103,311 paid 2000: $518,866 paid 2001: $24,359,194 paid 2002: $204,783 paid 2003: $202,467 paid 2004: $1,645,549 paid 2005: $3,010,893 paid 2006: $1,305,738 paid 2007: $400,064 paid 2008: $10,531,042 paid 2009: $92,630 paid 2010: $145,795 paid 2011: $277,708 paid 2012: $403,744 paid 2013: $298,945 paid 2014: $80,992 paid 2015: $1,050,472 paid 2016: $1,081,072,188 paid 2017: $294,242 paid 2018: $623,813 paid 2019: $6,883,770 paid 2020: $3,076,260 paid 2021: $110,570,960 paid 2022: $253,080 paid 2023: $799,702 paid 2024: $374,912 paid 2025: $936,291 paid 2026: $949,649 paid 2016 · $1.08B 1978 2026
$1.31B
total paid
$58,247
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 East Baton Rouge, LA and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether East Baton Rouge 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.