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County hazard profile

Pulaski, MO

Missouri · pop. 53,812 · FIPS 29169

Relatively Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Heat Wave
dominant hazard
$29M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Pulaski $29M

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 60.53/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (61st percentile)
Social vulnerabilityVery Low 10.62/100
national median ~50 among the lowest nationally
Community resilienceVery Low 19.91/100
national median ~50 among the lowest nationally

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Pulaski

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 267 flood-insurance claims totaling $7.0M in Pulaski since 1978. The costliest year was 2017 ($2.5M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1978: $237 paid 1979: $376 paid 1982: $56,477 paid 1983: $16,003 paid 1984: $0 paid 1985: $34,899 paid 1990: $28,364 paid 1991: $28,496 paid 1993: $291,210 paid 1994: $0 paid 1995: $0 paid 2002: $5,608 paid 2004: $1,893 paid 2005: $34,897 paid 2007: $5,468 paid 2008: $986,395 paid 2009: $7,046 paid 2010: $0 paid 2011: $38,392 paid 2013: $1,879,191 paid 2015: $619,351 paid 2017: $2,487,998 paid 2018: $0 paid 2019: $0 paid 2021: $0 paid 2022: $0 paid 2023: $0 paid 2024: $494,481 paid 2017 · $2.5M 1978 2024
$7.0M
total paid
$26,280
average claim
$245K
largest single claim
76%
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 Pulaski, MO and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Pulaski 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.