Property Atlas

County hazard profile

Nicollet, MN

Minnesota · pop. 34,438 · FIPS 27103

Relatively Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Strong Wind
dominant hazard
$18M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Nicollet $18M

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 45.39/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (45th percentile)
Social vulnerabilityVery Low 15.81/100
national median ~50 among the lowest nationally
Community resilienceVery High 99.05/100
national median ~50 among the highest nationally

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Nicollet

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 59 flood-insurance claims totaling $553K in Nicollet since 1979. The costliest year was 2010 ($205K paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1979: $0 paid 1981: $0 paid 1983: $0 paid 1984: $2,128 paid 1986: $404 paid 1993: $12,473 paid 1996: $0 paid 1997: $78,151 paid 1998: $5,125 paid 2001: $15,459 paid 2004: $56,560 paid 2007: $8,799 paid 2010: $204,595 paid 2011: $25,305 paid 2012: $0 paid 2014: $2,484 paid 2016: $0 paid 2019: $43,508 paid 2024: $97,987 paid 2010 · $205K 1979 2024
$553K
total paid
$9,373
average claim
$130K
largest single claim
32%
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 Nicollet, MN and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Nicollet 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.