Property Atlas

County hazard profile

Wayne, MS

Mississippi · pop. 19,732 · FIPS 28153

Relatively Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Hurricane
dominant hazard
$13M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Wayne $13M

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 55.66/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (56th percentile)
Social vulnerabilityVery High 83.11/100
national median ~50 higher than 83% of counties
Community resilienceRelatively Low 25.73/100
national median ~50 lower than most counties (26th percentile)

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Wayne

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 53 flood-insurance claims totaling $850K in Wayne since 1979. The costliest year was 2018 ($335K paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1979: $48,385 paid 1980: $11,244 paid 1981: $8,756 paid 1982: $53,104 paid 1983: $13,882 paid 1985: $2,000 paid 1987: $3,495 paid 1994: $2,563 paid 1995: $470 paid 2003: $18,825 paid 2008: $4,545 paid 2009: $10,096 paid 2011: $65,458 paid 2012: $37,496 paid 2013: $84,811 paid 2014: $53,715 paid 2015: $19,490 paid 2016: $21,477 paid 2018: $335,134 paid 2019: $0 paid 2022: $55,000 paid 2018 · $335K 1979 2022
$850K
total paid
$16,037
average claim
$153K
largest single claim
36%
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 Wayne, MS and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Wayne 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.