Property Atlas

County hazard profile

Rapides, LA

Louisiana · pop. 129,664 · FIPS 22079

Relatively Moderate
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Lightning
dominant hazard
$40M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Rapides $40M

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 Moderate 84.29/100
national median ~50 higher than 84% of counties
Social vulnerabilityRelatively High 79.29/100
national median ~50 higher than 79% of counties
Community resilienceVery High 80.12/100
national median ~50 higher than 80% of counties

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Rapides

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 4,224 flood-insurance claims totaling $68.2M in Rapides since 1978. The costliest year was 2008 ($17.5M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1978: $3,463 paid 1979: $892,139 paid 1980: $195,701 paid 1981: $4,995 paid 1982: $1,464,070 paid 1983: $313,924 paid 1984: $598,474 paid 1985: $49,613 paid 1986: $5,091 paid 1987: $3,780,658 paid 1988: $7,294 paid 1989: $850,565 paid 1990: $900,604 paid 1991: $2,515,083 paid 1992: $65,401 paid 1993: $153,054 paid 1994: $760,499 paid 1995: $495,315 paid 1996: $33,912 paid 1997: $2,388,646 paid 1998: $231,727 paid 1999: $766,486 paid 2000: $236,682 paid 2001: $2,260,770 paid 2002: $740,921 paid 2003: $94,006 paid 2004: $107,213 paid 2005: $200,690 paid 2006: $181,175 paid 2007: $90,400 paid 2008: $17,507,451 paid 2009: $453,216 paid 2010: $63,144 paid 2011: $1,016,413 paid 2012: $314,490 paid 2013: $126,047 paid 2014: $43,549 paid 2015: $2,568,420 paid 2016: $2,344,362 paid 2017: $7,656,888 paid 2018: $279,426 paid 2019: $2,378,328 paid 2020: $12,571,466 paid 2021: $303,634 paid 2022: $4,755 paid 2023: $0 paid 2024: $103,638 paid 2025: $34,795 paid 2026: $7,730 paid 2008 · $17.5M 1978 2026
$68.2M
total paid
$16,138
average claim
$500K
largest single claim
66%
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 Rapides, LA and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Rapides 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.