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County hazard profile

Wright, MN

Minnesota · pop. 141,326 · FIPS 27171

Relatively Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Strong Wind
dominant hazard
$51M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Wright $51M

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 68.42/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (68th percentile)
Social vulnerabilityVery Low 10.62/100
national median ~50 among the lowest nationally
Community resilienceVery High 98.54/100
national median ~50 among the highest nationally

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Wright

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 223 flood-insurance claims totaling $2.0M in Wright since 1978. The costliest year was 1984 ($578K paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1978: $17,008 paid 1979: $876 paid 1980: $2,047 paid 1983: $331,722 paid 1984: $578,033 paid 1985: $459,077 paid 1986: $342,226 paid 1987: $2,290 paid 1989: $0 paid 1991: $6,202 paid 1993: $1,219 paid 1994: $500 paid 1995: $6,976 paid 1996: $591 paid 1997: $18,652 paid 1998: $30,480 paid 2001: $3,070 paid 2002: $57,686 paid 2003: $53,445 paid 2004: $0 paid 2006: $887 paid 2008: $0 paid 2010: $0 paid 2011: $80,613 paid 2014: $1,000 paid 2015: $0 paid 2019: $2,180 paid 2020: $0 paid 2021: $0 paid 2023: $3,200 paid 2025: $0 paid 1984 · $578K 1978 2025
$2.0M
total paid
$8,969
average claim
$71K
largest single claim
69%
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 Wright, MN and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Wright 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.