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County hazard profile

Plaquemines, LA

Louisiana · pop. 23,448 · FIPS 22075

Relatively Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Hurricane
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 Plaquemines $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 72.93/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (73rd percentile)
Social vulnerabilityRelatively Moderate 59.45/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (59th percentile)
Community resilienceVery High 97.65/100
national median ~50 among the highest nationally

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Plaquemines

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 6,086 flood-insurance claims totaling $381.7M in Plaquemines since 1978. The costliest year was 2005 ($255.4M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1978: $17,442 paid 1979: $83,303 paid 1980: $100,744 paid 1981: $8,461 paid 1982: $33,996 paid 1983: $748,119 paid 1984: $4,942 paid 1985: $695,406 paid 1987: $318 paid 1988: $11,762 paid 1989: $441,441 paid 1990: $118,371 paid 1991: $212,187 paid 1992: $344,959 paid 1993: $12,057 paid 1994: $2,012 paid 1995: $41,639 paid 1996: $54,194 paid 1997: $759,700 paid 1998: $1,589,036 paid 1999: $194,780 paid 2000: $1,894 paid 2001: $66,965 paid 2002: $1,353,119 paid 2003: $449,402 paid 2004: $886,269 paid 2005: $255,352,380 paid 2006: $11,745 paid 2007: $51,253 paid 2008: $1,851,014 paid 2009: $222,503 paid 2011: $551,186 paid 2012: $94,193,837 paid 2013: $0 paid 2014: $0 paid 2015: $2,237 paid 2016: $4,395 paid 2017: $1,246,023 paid 2018: $422,406 paid 2019: $638,789 paid 2020: $1,197,227 paid 2021: $17,317,083 paid 2023: $0 paid 2024: $415,997 paid 2005 · $255.4M 1978 2024
$381.7M
total paid
$62,719
average claim
$1.0M
largest single claim
68%
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 Plaquemines, LA and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Plaquemines 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.