Property Atlas

County hazard profile

Richland, LA

Louisiana · pop. 19,986 · FIPS 22083

Very Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Drought
dominant hazard
$8M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Richland $8M

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 indexVery Low 36.67/100
national median ~50 lower than most counties (37th percentile)
Social vulnerabilityVery High 94.78/100
national median ~50 among the highest nationally
Community resilienceRelatively High 63.84/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (64th percentile)

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Richland

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 473 flood-insurance claims totaling $11.1M in Richland since 1979. The costliest year was 2016 ($4.0M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1979: $28,156 paid 1980: $3,947 paid 1982: $61,190 paid 1983: $83,334 paid 1984: $18,565 paid 1985: $0 paid 1987: $37,082 paid 1988: $0 paid 1989: $18,700 paid 1990: $89,742 paid 1991: $676,341 paid 1993: $10,355 paid 1994: $8,109 paid 1995: $25,864 paid 1996: $475 paid 1997: $40,815 paid 1998: $39,099 paid 1999: $306,210 paid 2000: $33,731 paid 2001: $47,829 paid 2002: $6,608 paid 2005: $0 paid 2006: $1,448,214 paid 2007: $4,342 paid 2008: $2,140,979 paid 2009: $36,596 paid 2011: $12,993 paid 2012: $0 paid 2013: $69,272 paid 2014: $0 paid 2015: $146,641 paid 2016: $4,036,845 paid 2017: $36,666 paid 2020: $1,479,908 paid 2022: $38,460 paid 2023: $0 paid 2024: $70,100 paid 2025: $15,949 paid 2016 · $4.0M 1979 2025
$11.1M
total paid
$23,410
average claim
$182K
largest single claim
45%
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 Richland, LA and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Richland 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.