Property Atlas

County hazard profile

West Carroll, LA

Louisiana · pop. 9,736 · FIPS 22123

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 West Carroll $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 15.39/100
national median ~50 among the lowest nationally
Social vulnerabilityVery High 84.38/100
national median ~50 higher than 84% of counties
Community resilienceRelatively Low 24.75/100
national median ~50 lower than most counties (25th percentile)

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in West Carroll

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 63 flood-insurance claims totaling $1.8M in West Carroll since 1979. The costliest year was 2016 ($1.2M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1979: $11,471 paid 1982: $15,941 paid 1983: $9,533 paid 1988: $3,493 paid 1990: $8,708 paid 1991: $103,541 paid 1997: $2,750 paid 1999: $51,331 paid 2000: $10,661 paid 2001: $8,391 paid 2003: $571 paid 2005: $0 paid 2006: $30,682 paid 2008: $259,488 paid 2010: $4,202 paid 2011: $3,940 paid 2013: $0 paid 2015: $8,050 paid 2016: $1,198,771 paid 2020: $38,534 paid 2016 · $1.2M 1979 2020
$1.8M
total paid
$28,096
average claim
$125K
largest single claim
46%
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.

Also available: structured data (JSON-LD) · plain text

What this is — and is not

This is FEMA/CDC modeled hazard exposure for West Carroll, LA and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether West Carroll 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.