Property Atlas

County hazard profile

Orleans, LA

Louisiana · pop. 383,606 · FIPS 22071

Relatively High
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Hurricane
dominant hazard
$304M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the highest nationally

national median $15M/yr Orleans $304M

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 98.25/100
national median ~50 among the highest nationally
Social vulnerabilityRelatively High 77.51/100
national median ~50 higher than 78% of counties
Community resilienceVery High 99.87/100
national median ~50 among the highest nationally

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Orleans

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 127,238 flood-insurance claims totaling $7.30B in Orleans since 1978. The costliest year was 2005 ($6.81B paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1978: $11,455,936 paid 1979: $374,816 paid 1980: $25,933,891 paid 1981: $2,782,966 paid 1982: $3,305,564 paid 1983: $25,692,581 paid 1984: $5,250 paid 1985: $3,266,325 paid 1986: $148,396 paid 1987: $38,968 paid 1988: $5,363,220 paid 1989: $1,378,516 paid 1990: $5,929,294 paid 1991: $13,340,450 paid 1992: $879,749 paid 1993: $154,126 paid 1994: $3,302,224 paid 1995: $160,635,400 paid 1996: $727,379 paid 1997: $1,177,137 paid 1998: $36,152,629 paid 1999: $644,856 paid 2000: $225,663 paid 2001: $3,985,988 paid 2002: $26,474,634 paid 2003: $2,500,731 paid 2004: $2,246,783 paid 2005: $6,807,436,139 paid 2006: $528,818 paid 2007: $1,128,866 paid 2008: $13,057,775 paid 2009: $2,931,080 paid 2010: $838,165 paid 2011: $6,069,438 paid 2012: $12,546,515 paid 2013: $304,957 paid 2014: $270,873 paid 2015: $467,357 paid 2016: $352,487 paid 2017: $29,949,974 paid 2018: $318,718 paid 2019: $44,462,540 paid 2020: $2,775,714 paid 2021: $30,351,705 paid 2022: $324,969 paid 2023: $1,650,958 paid 2024: $5,783,118 paid 2025: $1,153,847 paid 2026: $740,627 paid 2005 · $6.81B 1978 2026
$7.30B
total paid
$57,385
average claim
$3.9M
largest single claim
73%
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 Orleans, LA and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Orleans 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.