Property Atlas

County hazard profile

Evangeline, LA

Louisiana · pop. 32,319 · FIPS 22039

Relatively Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Cold Wave
dominant hazard
$23M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Evangeline $23M

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 75.92/100
national median ~50 higher than 76% of counties
Social vulnerabilityVery High 89.57/100
national median ~50 among the highest nationally
Community resilienceRelatively Low 20.1/100
national median ~50 among the lowest nationally

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Evangeline

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 286 flood-insurance claims totaling $6.4M in Evangeline since 1979. The costliest year was 2016 ($2.5M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1979: $36,495 paid 1980: $15,873 paid 1983: $6,977 paid 1984: $18,384 paid 1985: $69,579 paid 1988: $0 paid 1989: $47,821 paid 1990: $5,694 paid 1991: $40,247 paid 1992: $21,175 paid 1993: $13,014 paid 1994: $11,639 paid 1995: $68,973 paid 2002: $21,383 paid 2003: $20,412 paid 2004: $29,318 paid 2005: $76,270 paid 2006: $83,552 paid 2008: $14,138 paid 2009: $39,907 paid 2011: $0 paid 2012: $46,976 paid 2013: $374,256 paid 2014: $0 paid 2016: $2,548,910 paid 2017: $1,352,209 paid 2018: $0 paid 2019: $1,034,438 paid 2020: $401,387 paid 2021: $4,558 paid 2022: $1,517 paid 2025: $0 paid 2016 · $2.5M 1979 2025
$6.4M
total paid
$22,395
average claim
$198K
largest single claim
53%
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 Evangeline, LA and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Evangeline 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.