Property Atlas

County hazard profile

Norman, MN

Minnesota · pop. 6,420 · FIPS 27107

Very Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Drought
dominant hazard
$6M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Norman $6M

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 14.38/100
national median ~50 among the lowest nationally
Social vulnerabilityRelatively Moderate 47.49/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (47th percentile)
Community resilienceRelatively Moderate 54.26/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (54th percentile)

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Norman

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 247 flood-insurance claims totaling $2.5M in Norman since 1978. The costliest year was 1997 ($1.6M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1978: $79,584 paid 1979: $151,452 paid 1982: $0 paid 1983: $0 paid 1986: $0 paid 1989: $7,426 paid 1996: $5,435 paid 1997: $1,605,828 paid 2000: $4,030 paid 2001: $18,422 paid 2002: $120,804 paid 2006: $121,581 paid 2008: $0 paid 2009: $187,633 paid 2010: $23,123 paid 2011: $124,131 paid 2013: $582 paid 2020: $803 paid 2023: $0 paid 1997 · $1.6M 1978 2023
$2.5M
total paid
$9,922
average claim
$205K
largest single claim
44%
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 Norman, MN and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Norman 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.