Property Atlas

County hazard profile

Wabasha, MN

Minnesota · pop. 21,380 · FIPS 27157

Relatively Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Landslide
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 Wabasha $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 45.55/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (46th percentile)
Social vulnerabilityVery Low 18.13/100
national median ~50 among the lowest nationally
Community resilienceVery High 89.92/100
national median ~50 among the highest nationally

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Wabasha

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 162 flood-insurance claims totaling $3.4M in Wabasha since 1978. The costliest year was 2010 ($2.3M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1978: $28,939 paid 1979: $677 paid 1986: $30,490 paid 1993: $11,690 paid 1996: $22,250 paid 1997: $136,452 paid 1998: $3,440 paid 2001: $273,087 paid 2007: $7,136 paid 2010: $2,343,924 paid 2011: $81,843 paid 2012: $6,460 paid 2019: $300,055 paid 2023: $136,483 paid 2024: $18,828 paid 2010 · $2.3M 1978 2024
$3.4M
total paid
$20,998
average claim
$149K
largest single claim
70%
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 Wabasha, MN and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Wabasha 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.