Property Atlas

County hazard profile

Scott, MS

Mississippi · pop. 27,923 · FIPS 28123

Relatively Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Hail
dominant hazard
$12M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Scott $12M

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 55.88/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (56th percentile)
Social vulnerabilityVery High 91.89/100
national median ~50 among the highest nationally
Community resilienceVery Low 14.54/100
national median ~50 among the lowest nationally

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Scott

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 33 flood-insurance claims totaling $1.0M in Scott since 1979. The costliest year was 2022 ($543K paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1979: $2,860 paid 1983: $5,386 paid 1984: $4,739 paid 1990: $9,300 paid 1991: $13,614 paid 1993: $2,888 paid 1994: $1,517 paid 1996: $43,163 paid 1997: $23,914 paid 2011: $120,762 paid 2013: $0 paid 2016: $30,157 paid 2017: $72,327 paid 2019: $5,110 paid 2022: $543,277 paid 2025: $144,096 paid 2026: $0 paid 2022 · $543K 1979 2026
$1.0M
total paid
$31,003
average claim
$244K
largest single claim
61%
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 Scott, MS and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Scott 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.