Property Atlas

County hazard profile

Copiah, MS

Mississippi · pop. 28,350 · FIPS 28029

Relatively Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Landslide
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 Copiah $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 61.29/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (61st percentile)
Social vulnerabilityVery High 89.06/100
national median ~50 higher than 89% of counties
Community resilienceRelatively Low 27.07/100
national median ~50 lower than most counties (27th percentile)

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Copiah

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 37 flood-insurance claims totaling $239K in Copiah since 1979. The costliest year was 2020 ($75K paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1979: $1,566 paid 1980: $11,251 paid 1981: $501 paid 1983: $21,477 paid 1989: $10,050 paid 1991: $16,075 paid 1994: $5,695 paid 1997: $782 paid 2000: $12,632 paid 2002: $0 paid 2004: $0 paid 2009: $5,525 paid 2014: $22,200 paid 2019: $30,000 paid 2020: $74,803 paid 2022: $26,499 paid 2020 · $75K 1979 2022
$239K
total paid
$6,461
average claim
$71K
largest single claim
38%
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 Copiah, MS and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Copiah 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.