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County hazard profile

Pemiscot, MO

Missouri · pop. 15,589 · FIPS 29155

Relatively Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Earthquake
dominant hazard
$24M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Pemiscot $24M

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 77.96/100
national median ~50 higher than 78% of counties
Social vulnerabilityVery High 92.05/100
national median ~50 among the highest nationally
Community resilienceRelatively Low 28.12/100
national median ~50 lower than most counties (28th percentile)

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Pemiscot

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 127 flood-insurance claims totaling $746K in Pemiscot since 1978. The costliest year was 2011 ($110K paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1978: $1,406 paid 1979: $23,051 paid 1980: $434 paid 1981: $5,763 paid 1983: $93,243 paid 1984: $16,305 paid 1994: $20,737 paid 1995: $14,250 paid 1996: $25,967 paid 1997: $73,407 paid 1998: $15,762 paid 1999: $13,463 paid 2001: $2,651 paid 2002: $430 paid 2003: $0 paid 2005: $0 paid 2008: $35,482 paid 2010: $0 paid 2011: $110,049 paid 2013: $13,536 paid 2015: $91,311 paid 2019: $61,310 paid 2020: $18,953 paid 2021: $1,107 paid 2025: $107,414 paid 2011 · $110K 1978 2025
$746K
total paid
$5,874
average claim
$85K
largest single claim
80%
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 Pemiscot, MO and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Pemiscot 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.