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County hazard profile

Yazoo, MS

Mississippi · pop. 26,703 · FIPS 28163

Relatively Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Lightning
dominant hazard
$19M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Yazoo $19M

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 71.15/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (71st percentile)
Social vulnerabilityVery High 91.19/100
national median ~50 among the highest nationally
Community resilienceRelatively Low 20.26/100
national median ~50 among the lowest nationally

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Yazoo

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 410 flood-insurance claims totaling $7.8M in Yazoo since 1979. The costliest year was 2011 ($3.9M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1979: $80,540 paid 1980: $9,620 paid 1981: $0 paid 1982: $935 paid 1983: $215,980 paid 1984: $20,222 paid 1987: $7,826 paid 1988: $0 paid 1990: $1,066 paid 1991: $74,201 paid 1993: $0 paid 1994: $10,952 paid 1995: $23,668 paid 1996: $0 paid 1997: $90,541 paid 2000: $51,876 paid 2003: $228,907 paid 2004: $0 paid 2005: $15,219 paid 2006: $2,458 paid 2007: $0 paid 2008: $1,288,654 paid 2009: $128,200 paid 2011: $3,891,213 paid 2012: $0 paid 2013: $0 paid 2014: $42,044 paid 2016: $68,127 paid 2017: $23,649 paid 2018: $64,589 paid 2019: $596,014 paid 2020: $510,689 paid 2021: $11,963 paid 2022: $12,656 paid 2023: $0 paid 2024: $11,501 paid 2025: $124,710 paid 2026: $149,266 paid 2011 · $3.9M 1979 2026
$7.8M
total paid
$18,920
average claim
$252K
largest single claim
83%
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 Yazoo, MS and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Yazoo 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.