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County hazard profile

Tuscola, MI

Michigan · pop. 53,321 · FIPS 26157

Relatively Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Strong Wind
dominant hazard
$28M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Tuscola $28M

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 Low 73.06/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (73rd percentile)
Social vulnerabilityRelatively Moderate 59.29/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (59th percentile)
Community resilienceVery High 80.03/100
national median ~50 higher than 80% of counties

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Tuscola

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 133 flood-insurance claims totaling $1.0M in Tuscola since 1978. The costliest year was 1986 ($470K paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1978: $0 paid 1979: $5,294 paid 1980: $4,661 paid 1983: $9,943 paid 1985: $42,710 paid 1986: $470,381 paid 1987: $17,205 paid 1994: $2,167 paid 1996: $208,452 paid 1997: $36,141 paid 1998: $7,493 paid 2009: $70,970 paid 2010: $261 paid 2013: $2,873 paid 2017: $5,075 paid 2018: $0 paid 2019: $25,501 paid 2020: $101,528 paid 2021: $27,492 paid 1986 · $470K 1978 2021
$1.0M
total paid
$7,806
average claim
$78K
largest single claim
63%
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 Tuscola, MI and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Tuscola 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.