Property Atlas

County hazard profile

Tallahatchie, MS

Mississippi · pop. 12,658 · FIPS 28135

Very Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Drought
dominant hazard
$8M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Tallahatchie $8M

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 40.08/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (40th percentile)
Social vulnerabilityVery High 90.74/100
national median ~50 among the highest nationally
Community resilienceVery Low 12.25/100
national median ~50 among the lowest nationally

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Tallahatchie

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 102 flood-insurance claims totaling $767K in Tallahatchie since 1979. The costliest year was 2021 ($185K paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1979: $30,503 paid 1980: $9,818 paid 1982: $11,336 paid 1983: $28,471 paid 1984: $4,719 paid 1986: $3,893 paid 1988: $0 paid 1989: $1,890 paid 1990: $11,856 paid 1991: $126,543 paid 1993: $13,575 paid 1994: $2,756 paid 1995: $5,791 paid 1997: $6,320 paid 1999: $26,063 paid 2001: $102,654 paid 2002: $24,620 paid 2003: $0 paid 2005: $0 paid 2006: $4,123 paid 2008: $11,836 paid 2009: $14,010 paid 2011: $0 paid 2015: $5,381 paid 2019: $130,913 paid 2021: $184,515 paid 2024: $5,000 paid 2021 · $185K 1979 2024
$767K
total paid
$7,516
average claim
$78K
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 Tallahatchie, MS and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Tallahatchie 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.