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County hazard profile

Rankin, MS

Mississippi · pop. 153,271 · FIPS 28121

Relatively Moderate
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Hail
dominant hazard
$60M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Rankin $60M

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 84.99/100
national median ~50 higher than 85% of counties
Social vulnerabilityRelatively Low 28.75/100
national median ~50 lower than most counties (29th percentile)
Community resilienceRelatively High 70.96/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (71st percentile)

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Rankin

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 977 flood-insurance claims totaling $20.9M in Rankin since 1978. The costliest year was 2017 ($6.6M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1978: $478 paid 1979: $649,370 paid 1980: $617,097 paid 1981: $15,000 paid 1982: $125,034 paid 1983: $1,744,741 paid 1984: $4,906 paid 1985: $5,258 paid 1986: $5,551 paid 1987: $3,640 paid 1989: $6,285 paid 1990: $6,740 paid 1991: $42,695 paid 1992: $0 paid 1993: $553 paid 1994: $18,407 paid 1995: $44,002 paid 1996: $3,984 paid 1997: $34,061 paid 1998: $54,948 paid 1999: $95,467 paid 2000: $31,541 paid 2001: $831,321 paid 2002: $373,880 paid 2003: $1,382,061 paid 2004: $770,413 paid 2005: $7,661 paid 2006: $8,825 paid 2007: $1,812 paid 2008: $28,404 paid 2009: $30,011 paid 2010: $93,540 paid 2011: $1,797,109 paid 2012: $0 paid 2013: $110,151 paid 2014: $454,430 paid 2015: $3,017 paid 2016: $308,239 paid 2017: $6,602,125 paid 2018: $1,262,611 paid 2019: $135,182 paid 2020: $911,558 paid 2021: $69,523 paid 2022: $1,688,786 paid 2023: $14,763 paid 2024: $488,326 paid 2025: $2,027 paid 2026: $20,605 paid 2017 · $6.6M 1978 2026
$20.9M
total paid
$21,398
average claim
$302K
largest single claim
52%
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 Rankin, MS and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Rankin 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.