Property Atlas

County hazard profile

Hinds, MS

Mississippi · pop. 227,510 · FIPS 28049

Relatively Moderate
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Hail
dominant hazard
$117M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

lower than most counties (36th percentile)

national median $15M/yr Hinds $117M

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 Moderate 94.31/100
national median ~50 among the highest nationally
Social vulnerabilityVery High 80.09/100
national median ~50 higher than 80% of counties
Community resilienceVery High 80.47/100
national median ~50 higher than 80% of counties

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Hinds

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 4,715 flood-insurance claims totaling $70.8M in Hinds since 1978. The costliest year was 1983 ($22.4M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1978: $761 paid 1979: $13,558,267 paid 1980: $788,814 paid 1981: $54,924 paid 1982: $189,537 paid 1983: $22,395,417 paid 1984: $199,393 paid 1985: $40,162 paid 1986: $54,303 paid 1987: $37,863 paid 1988: $77,021 paid 1989: $258,419 paid 1990: $86,708 paid 1991: $441,527 paid 1992: $11,795 paid 1993: $101,268 paid 1994: $110,223 paid 1995: $745,144 paid 1996: $52,590 paid 1997: $439,016 paid 1998: $353,367 paid 1999: $103,592 paid 2000: $57,934 paid 2001: $220,728 paid 2002: $692,107 paid 2003: $10,461,879 paid 2004: $42,782 paid 2005: $891,921 paid 2006: $56,198 paid 2007: $146,179 paid 2008: $323,272 paid 2009: $222,752 paid 2010: $876,598 paid 2011: $2,376,623 paid 2012: $501,865 paid 2013: $618,742 paid 2014: $324,060 paid 2015: $79,865 paid 2016: $205,095 paid 2017: $960,509 paid 2018: $195,528 paid 2019: $1,452,706 paid 2020: $8,071,929 paid 2021: $642,180 paid 2022: $602,755 paid 2023: $293,217 paid 2024: $188,101 paid 2025: $206,168 paid 2026: $0 paid 1983 · $22.4M 1978 2026
$70.8M
total paid
$15,018
average claim
$500K
largest single claim
66%
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 Hinds, MS and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Hinds 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.