Property Atlas

County hazard profile

Prince George's, MD

Maryland · pop. 965,886 · FIPS 24033

Relatively Moderate
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Winter Weather
dominant hazard
$122M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

lower than most counties (38th percentile)

national median $15M/yr Prince George's $122M

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 93.16/100
national median ~50 among the highest nationally
Social vulnerabilityRelatively Moderate 49.36/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (49th percentile)
Community resilienceRelatively Low 29.83/100
national median ~50 lower than most counties (30th percentile)

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Prince George's

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 1,153 flood-insurance claims totaling $7.9M in Prince George's since 1978. The costliest year was 2020 ($2.1M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1978: $2,618 paid 1979: $147,660 paid 1980: $65,701 paid 1981: $22,438 paid 1982: $4,159 paid 1983: $2,880 paid 1984: $19,107 paid 1985: $3,374 paid 1986: $0 paid 1987: $0 paid 1989: $0 paid 1990: $0 paid 1991: $0 paid 1992: $0 paid 1993: $9,547 paid 1994: $3,169 paid 1995: $2,260 paid 1996: $7,207 paid 1997: $1,314 paid 1998: $6,385 paid 1999: $45,978 paid 2000: $0 paid 2001: $1,288 paid 2002: $15,146 paid 2003: $251,225 paid 2004: $100,503 paid 2005: $10,878 paid 2006: $1,326,534 paid 2007: $7,848 paid 2008: $312,123 paid 2009: $65,772 paid 2010: $47,746 paid 2011: $897,713 paid 2012: $53,269 paid 2013: $92,869 paid 2014: $813,618 paid 2015: $32,644 paid 2016: $40,125 paid 2017: $95,427 paid 2018: $289,558 paid 2019: $401,342 paid 2020: $2,068,730 paid 2021: $82,679 paid 2022: $260,370 paid 2023: $84,159 paid 2024: $44,691 paid 2025: $112,907 paid 2026: $2,818 paid 2020 · $2.1M 1978 2026
$7.9M
total paid
$6,813
average claim
$457K
largest single claim
35%
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 Prince George's, MD and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Prince George's 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.