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County hazard profile

Coahoma, MS

Mississippi · pop. 21,300 · FIPS 28027

Relatively Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Earthquake
dominant hazard
$15M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Coahoma $15M

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 62.5/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (63rd percentile)
Social vulnerabilityVery High 94.82/100
national median ~50 among the highest nationally
Community resilienceRelatively High 74.46/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (74th percentile)

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Coahoma

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 333 flood-insurance claims totaling $6.8M in Coahoma since 1979. The costliest year was 2016 ($3.3M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1979: $108,290 paid 1980: $3,875 paid 1981: $5,025 paid 1982: $40,235 paid 1983: $106,399 paid 1984: $19,166 paid 1985: $1,152 paid 1989: $27,724 paid 1990: $58,153 paid 1991: $257,739 paid 1992: $75,239 paid 1993: $0 paid 1994: $40,338 paid 1995: $48,844 paid 1997: $144,582 paid 1998: $28,568 paid 2001: $124,872 paid 2002: $50,049 paid 2003: $30,571 paid 2004: $8,760 paid 2005: $27,914 paid 2008: $77,816 paid 2009: $33,104 paid 2011: $1,653,291 paid 2013: $26,965 paid 2014: $54,481 paid 2015: $40,150 paid 2016: $3,336,398 paid 2018: $90,672 paid 2019: $130,994 paid 2020: $30,108 paid 2021: $32,131 paid 2024: $89,615 paid 2016 · $3.3M 1979 2024
$6.8M
total paid
$20,430
average claim
$227K
largest single claim
57%
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 Coahoma, MS and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Coahoma 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.