Property Atlas

County hazard profile

Jackson, MS

Mississippi · pop. 143,149 · FIPS 28059

Relatively Moderate
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Hurricane
dominant hazard
$111M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

lower than most counties (34th percentile)

national median $15M/yr Jackson $111M

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 92.33/100
national median ~50 among the highest nationally
Social vulnerabilityRelatively Moderate 52.42/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (52nd percentile)
Community resilienceVery High 86.13/100
national median ~50 higher than 86% of counties

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Jackson

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 11,299 flood-insurance claims totaling $720.0M in Jackson since 1978. The costliest year was 2005 ($639.7M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1978: $11,979 paid 1979: $712,795 paid 1980: $416,230 paid 1981: $211,197 paid 1982: $13,753 paid 1983: $615,062 paid 1984: $22,986 paid 1985: $364,544 paid 1987: $255,295 paid 1988: $16,475 paid 1989: $5,500 paid 1990: $173,727 paid 1991: $33,410 paid 1992: $7,833 paid 1993: $175,897 paid 1994: $7,242 paid 1995: $160,271 paid 1996: $243,665 paid 1997: $122,284 paid 1998: $30,121,277 paid 1999: $39,107 paid 2000: $0 paid 2001: $167,222 paid 2002: $1,866,882 paid 2003: $202,630 paid 2004: $60,056 paid 2005: $639,683,864 paid 2006: $10,037 paid 2007: $8,189 paid 2008: $640,190 paid 2009: $5,148,191 paid 2010: $33,243 paid 2011: $406,600 paid 2012: $16,718,484 paid 2013: $4,394,427 paid 2014: $138,981 paid 2015: $966,922 paid 2016: $360,666 paid 2017: $4,270,795 paid 2018: $69,352 paid 2019: $292,319 paid 2020: $4,901,921 paid 2021: $5,537,412 paid 2022: $128,802 paid 2023: $56,277 paid 2024: $167,105 paid 2025: $1,711 paid 2026: $0 paid 2005 · $639.7M 1978 2026
$720.0M
total paid
$63,719
average claim
$1.0M
largest single claim
67%
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 Jackson, MS and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Jackson 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.