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County hazard profile

Wilkinson, MS

Mississippi · pop. 8,585 · FIPS 28157

Very Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Lightning
dominant hazard
$6M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Wilkinson $6M

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 33.46/100
national median ~50 lower than most counties (33rd percentile)
Social vulnerabilityVery High 99.59/100
national median ~50 among the highest nationally
Community resilienceRelatively Low 21.5/100
national median ~50 among the lowest nationally

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Wilkinson

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 1,394 flood-insurance claims totaling $18.7M in Wilkinson since 1979. The costliest year was 2011 ($3.9M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1979: $640,092 paid 1980: $222,371 paid 1982: $188,622 paid 1983: $988,106 paid 1984: $308,278 paid 1985: $88,477 paid 1986: $2,220 paid 1987: $320 paid 1989: $94,578 paid 1990: $790,196 paid 1991: $512,255 paid 1992: $5,219 paid 1993: $314,316 paid 1994: $647,581 paid 1995: $810,775 paid 1996: $238,970 paid 1997: $2,432,100 paid 1998: $112,883 paid 1999: $117,992 paid 2000: $0 paid 2001: $66,735 paid 2002: $189,026 paid 2003: $56,230 paid 2005: $217,926 paid 2008: $2,094,967 paid 2009: $570,132 paid 2010: $33,616 paid 2011: $3,895,920 paid 2013: $69,814 paid 2014: $163,270 paid 2015: $159,141 paid 2016: $953,101 paid 2017: $260,090 paid 2018: $548,381 paid 2019: $461,244 paid 2020: $164,901 paid 2021: $151,099 paid 2022: $2,815 paid 2023: $549 paid 2024: $13,997 paid 2025: $96,365 paid 2011 · $3.9M 1979 2025
$18.7M
total paid
$13,404
average claim
$300K
largest single claim
53%
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 Wilkinson, MS and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Wilkinson 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.