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County hazard profile

Missoula, MT

Montana · pop. 117,719 · FIPS 30063

Relatively Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Wildfire
dominant hazard
$57M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Missoula $57M

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 77.04/100
national median ~50 higher than 77% of counties
Social vulnerabilityVery Low 10.62/100
national median ~50 among the lowest nationally
Community resilienceRelatively High 79.55/100
national median ~50 higher than 80% of counties

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Missoula

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 172 flood-insurance claims totaling $973K in Missoula since 1978. The costliest year was 2018 ($307K paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1978: $366 paid 1980: $10,516 paid 1981: $0 paid 1982: $13,041 paid 1986: $0 paid 1996: $151,904 paid 1997: $212,852 paid 1998: $0 paid 1999: $1,754 paid 2001: $440 paid 2006: $3,763 paid 2007: $0 paid 2009: $1,825 paid 2011: $185,765 paid 2014: $42,483 paid 2015: $1,872 paid 2016: $448 paid 2017: $11,719 paid 2018: $307,485 paid 2019: $27,092 paid 2022: $0 paid 2018 · $307K 1978 2022
$973K
total paid
$5,659
average claim
$77K
largest single claim
33%
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 Missoula, MT and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Missoula 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.