Property Atlas

County hazard profile

Grenada, MS

Mississippi · pop. 21,585 · FIPS 28043

Relatively Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Earthquake
dominant hazard
$12M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Grenada $12M

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 55.41/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (55th percentile)
Social vulnerabilityVery High 96.15/100
national median ~50 among the highest nationally
Community resilienceRelatively High 68.1/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (68th percentile)

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Grenada

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 320 flood-insurance claims totaling $3.7M in Grenada since 1979. The costliest year was 1983 ($1.8M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1979: $4,930 paid 1980: $338 paid 1982: $645,224 paid 1983: $1,752,195 paid 1984: $1,326 paid 1986: $3,196 paid 1990: $0 paid 1991: $725,479 paid 1994: $14,378 paid 1995: $173 paid 1997: $0 paid 2000: $115,224 paid 2002: $136,945 paid 2003: $90,832 paid 2004: $8,444 paid 2005: $51,570 paid 2007: $19,414 paid 2009: $5,725 paid 2010: $0 paid 2014: $21,701 paid 2017: $10,374 paid 2019: $92,776 paid 2020: $0 paid 2021: $33,470 paid 1983 · $1.8M 1979 2021
$3.7M
total paid
$11,668
average claim
$66K
largest single claim
84%
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 Grenada, MS and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Grenada 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.