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County hazard profile

Mississippi, MO

Missouri · pop. 12,551 · FIPS 29133

Relatively Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Earthquake
dominant hazard
$16M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Mississippi $16M

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 57.19/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (57th percentile)
Social vulnerabilityRelatively High 65.62/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (66th percentile)
Community resilienceRelatively Low 32.03/100
national median ~50 lower than most counties (32nd percentile)

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Mississippi

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 212 flood-insurance claims totaling $4.4M in Mississippi since 1978. The costliest year was 2011 ($4.1M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1978: $0 paid 1979: $97,987 paid 1983: $14,847 paid 1984: $8,538 paid 1989: $3,598 paid 1994: $5,695 paid 1997: $125,904 paid 2002: $5,051 paid 2003: $0 paid 2004: $1,398 paid 2006: $0 paid 2007: $16,861 paid 2008: $29,349 paid 2009: $0 paid 2011: $4,062,015 paid 2015: $0 paid 2016: $0 paid 2017: $0 paid 2025: $0 paid 2026: $0 paid 2011 · $4.1M 1978 2026
$4.4M
total paid
$20,619
average claim
$287K
largest single claim
74%
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 Mississippi, MO and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Mississippi 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.