Property Atlas

County hazard profile

Attala, MS

Mississippi · pop. 17,868 · FIPS 28007

Very Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Tornado
dominant hazard
$8M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Attala $8M

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 34.16/100
national median ~50 lower than most counties (34th percentile)
Social vulnerabilityVery High 80.09/100
national median ~50 higher than 80% of counties
Community resilienceRelatively Low 33.65/100
national median ~50 lower than most counties (34th percentile)

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Attala

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 26 flood-insurance claims totaling $455K in Attala since 1979. The costliest year was 2001 ($175K paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1979: $10,000 paid 1982: $220 paid 1983: $8,147 paid 1995: $14,256 paid 1997: $22,900 paid 2001: $175,024 paid 2002: $0 paid 2005: $25,070 paid 2006: $27,905 paid 2014: $26,217 paid 2017: $68,764 paid 2020: $2,191 paid 2023: $74,771 paid 2001 · $175K 1979 2023
$455K
total paid
$17,518
average claim
$71K
largest single claim
42%
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 Attala, MS and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Attala 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.