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County hazard profile

Newton, MO

Missouri · pop. 58,493 · FIPS 29145

Relatively Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Ice Storm
dominant hazard
$35M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Newton $35M

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 77.51/100
national median ~50 higher than 78% of counties
Social vulnerabilityRelatively Moderate 46.02/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (46th percentile)
Community resilienceRelatively Low 35.81/100
national median ~50 lower than most counties (36th percentile)

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Newton

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 209 flood-insurance claims totaling $5.3M in Newton since 1980. The costliest year was 2017 ($1.9M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1980: $96 paid 1983: $1,161 paid 1986: $7,259 paid 1991: $0 paid 1992: $0 paid 1993: $48,931 paid 1995: $22,570 paid 1996: $23,596 paid 1997: $633 paid 2000: $422 paid 2001: $9,340 paid 2003: $27,087 paid 2004: $460 paid 2008: $326,789 paid 2009: $232,008 paid 2010: $14,721 paid 2011: $143,609 paid 2015: $1,545,388 paid 2016: $0 paid 2017: $1,861,381 paid 2019: $952,384 paid 2021: $10,038 paid 2024: $26,654 paid 2017 · $1.9M 1980 2024
$5.3M
total paid
$25,141
average claim
$250K
largest single claim
71%
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 Newton, MO and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Newton 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.