Property Atlas

County hazard profile

Yellow Medicine, MN

Minnesota · pop. 9,528 · FIPS 27173

Very Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Heat Wave
dominant hazard
$10M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Yellow Medicine $10M

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 29.96/100
national median ~50 lower than most counties (30th percentile)
Social vulnerabilityRelatively Low 30.88/100
national median ~50 lower than most counties (31st percentile)
Community resilienceVery High 88.04/100
national median ~50 higher than 88% of counties

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Yellow Medicine

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 146 flood-insurance claims totaling $1.9M in Yellow Medicine since 1987. The costliest year was 1997 ($1.4M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1987: $1,041 paid 1990: $3,278 paid 1993: $0 paid 1994: $2,179 paid 1997: $1,350,184 paid 2001: $362,002 paid 2010: $144,155 paid 2011: $12,120 paid 2013: $4,338 paid 2014: $2,078 paid 2017: $4,826 paid 2018: $0 paid 2019: $36,005 paid 1997 · $1.4M 1987 2019
$1.9M
total paid
$13,166
average claim
$115K
largest single claim
29%
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 Yellow Medicine, MN and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Yellow Medicine 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.