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County hazard profile

Leflore, MS

Mississippi · pop. 28,282 · FIPS 28083

Relatively Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Drought
dominant hazard
$20M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Leflore $20M

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 73.51/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (74th percentile)
Social vulnerabilityVery High 98.22/100
national median ~50 among the highest nationally
Community resilienceRelatively Moderate 57.47/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (57th percentile)

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Leflore

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 442 flood-insurance claims totaling $4.4M in Leflore since 1979. The costliest year was 2021 ($1.5M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1979: $9,213 paid 1980: $42,306 paid 1981: $9,833 paid 1982: $95,539 paid 1983: $930,567 paid 1984: $0 paid 1986: $0 paid 1987: $41,336 paid 1989: $9,778 paid 1990: $15,586 paid 1991: $431,966 paid 1992: $0 paid 1994: $8,057 paid 1995: $0 paid 1996: $11,866 paid 1997: $0 paid 1998: $19,902 paid 1999: $0 paid 2000: $1,170 paid 2001: $77,611 paid 2002: $4,817 paid 2003: $0 paid 2004: $39,607 paid 2005: $24,427 paid 2007: $2,938 paid 2008: $2,541 paid 2009: $11,332 paid 2010: $0 paid 2011: $0 paid 2012: $59,497 paid 2013: $0 paid 2014: $208,548 paid 2015: $0 paid 2016: $112,954 paid 2019: $611,257 paid 2020: $49,020 paid 2021: $1,458,025 paid 2022: $67,668 paid 2023: $0 paid 2024: $544 paid 2025: $5,934 paid 2021 · $1.5M 1979 2025
$4.4M
total paid
$9,873
average claim
$121K
largest single claim
72%
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 Leflore, MS and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Leflore 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.