Property Atlas

County hazard profile

Pike, MS

Mississippi · pop. 40,285 · FIPS 28113

Relatively Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Tornado
dominant hazard
$18M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Pike $18M

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 70.42/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (70th percentile)
Social vulnerabilityVery High 97.2/100
national median ~50 among the highest nationally
Community resilienceRelatively Moderate 40.27/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (40th percentile)

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Pike

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 189 flood-insurance claims totaling $4.3M in Pike since 1978. The costliest year was 2012 ($984K paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1978: $47,946 paid 1979: $146,069 paid 1980: $57,753 paid 1982: $23,447 paid 1983: $121,776 paid 1984: $14,397 paid 1985: $40,722 paid 1988: $731 paid 1989: $25,393 paid 1990: $109,955 paid 1991: $11,813 paid 1992: $500 paid 1993: $9,412 paid 1994: $119,501 paid 1995: $43,568 paid 1997: $148,766 paid 1998: $88,500 paid 1999: $16,245 paid 2002: $297,878 paid 2003: $18,647 paid 2005: $20,339 paid 2006: $742,974 paid 2008: $54,990 paid 2009: $534,489 paid 2010: $26,258 paid 2011: $2,439 paid 2012: $984,379 paid 2014: $150,228 paid 2015: $4,830 paid 2016: $238,097 paid 2023: $0 paid 2025: $21,801 paid 2026: $150,948 paid 2012 · $984K 1978 2026
$4.3M
total paid
$22,618
average claim
$584K
largest single claim
43%
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 Pike, MS and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Pike 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.