Property Atlas

County hazard profile

Tensas, LA

Louisiana · pop. 4,133 · FIPS 22107

Very Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Drought
dominant hazard
$4M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Tensas $4M

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 14.5/100
national median ~50 among the lowest nationally
Social vulnerabilityVery High 96.09/100
national median ~50 among the highest nationally
Community resilienceRelatively Low 31.42/100
national median ~50 lower than most counties (31st percentile)

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Tensas

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 161 flood-insurance claims totaling $2.9M in Tensas since 1979. The costliest year was 2011 ($1.4M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1979: $11,762 paid 1980: $4,289 paid 1981: $0 paid 1982: $13,833 paid 1983: $64,445 paid 1984: $20,479 paid 1985: $374 paid 1989: $11,594 paid 1990: $31,536 paid 1991: $63,317 paid 1993: $16,416 paid 1994: $68,778 paid 1995: $56,913 paid 1996: $16,169 paid 1997: $206,603 paid 1998: $10,388 paid 2001: $14,180 paid 2002: $40,481 paid 2003: $0 paid 2005: $86,477 paid 2007: $4,958 paid 2008: $544,981 paid 2009: $33,610 paid 2010: $0 paid 2011: $1,419,258 paid 2012: $0 paid 2013: $171,121 paid 2014: $899 paid 2011 · $1.4M 1979 2014
$2.9M
total paid
$18,092
average claim
$176K
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 Tensas, LA and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Tensas 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.