Property Atlas

County hazard profile

Jefferson Davis, LA

Louisiana · pop. 32,235 · FIPS 22053

Relatively Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Drought
dominant hazard
$28M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Jefferson Davis $28M

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 74.33/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (74th percentile)
Social vulnerabilityRelatively High 61.51/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (62nd percentile)
Community resilienceRelatively Low 39.44/100
national median ~50 lower than most counties (39th percentile)

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Jefferson Davis

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 313 flood-insurance claims totaling $6.2M in Jefferson Davis since 1979. The costliest year was 2016 ($3.1M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1979: $1,265 paid 1980: $177,450 paid 1981: $1,420 paid 1982: $4,029 paid 1983: $1,238 paid 1984: $0 paid 1985: $57,398 paid 1987: $0 paid 1989: $92,714 paid 1991: $4,424 paid 1992: $1,869 paid 1995: $21,871 paid 1996: $4,006 paid 1998: $21,736 paid 1999: $9,550 paid 2001: $58,810 paid 2002: $93,698 paid 2003: $13,532 paid 2004: $50,147 paid 2005: $102,006 paid 2006: $195,355 paid 2008: $13,840 paid 2011: $1,892 paid 2013: $398,530 paid 2014: $41,875 paid 2016: $3,113,128 paid 2017: $533,471 paid 2018: $0 paid 2019: $401,574 paid 2020: $733,209 paid 2021: $92,831 paid 2022: $599 paid 2016 · $3.1M 1979 2022
$6.2M
total paid
$19,947
average claim
$209K
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 Jefferson Davis, LA and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Jefferson Davis 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.