Property Atlas

County hazard profile

Quitman, MS

Mississippi · pop. 6,166 · FIPS 28119

Very Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Drought
dominant hazard
$4M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Quitman $4M

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 indexVery Low 18.51/100
national median ~50 among the lowest nationally
Social vulnerabilityVery High 98.63/100
national median ~50 among the highest nationally
Community resilienceRelatively Low 26.15/100
national median ~50 lower than most counties (26th percentile)

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Quitman

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 253 flood-insurance claims totaling $2.3M in Quitman since 1979. The costliest year was 1991 ($705K paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1979: $8,819 paid 1980: $10,510 paid 1981: $0 paid 1982: $27,393 paid 1983: $10,476 paid 1984: $1,121 paid 1986: $628 paid 1989: $41,801 paid 1990: $41,664 paid 1991: $704,541 paid 1992: $565 paid 1994: $2,250 paid 1995: $255 paid 1997: $1,994 paid 2001: $395,075 paid 2002: $329,881 paid 2003: $28,028 paid 2004: $0 paid 2005: $2,119 paid 2008: $13,200 paid 2011: $56,260 paid 2016: $493,395 paid 2017: $0 paid 2018: $92,146 paid 2019: $32,218 paid 2021: $12,280 paid 2022: $42,813 paid 1991 · $705K 1979 2022
$2.3M
total paid
$9,286
average claim
$147K
largest single claim
58%
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 Quitman, MS and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Quitman 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.