Property Atlas

County hazard profile

Valley, MT

Montana · pop. 7,561 · FIPS 30105

Very Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Hail
dominant hazard
$11M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Valley $11M

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 indexVery Low 35.94/100
national median ~50 lower than most counties (36th percentile)
Social vulnerabilityRelatively Moderate 40.2/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (40th percentile)
Community resilienceRelatively Moderate 45.32/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (45th percentile)

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Valley

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 250 flood-insurance claims totaling $1.5M in Valley since 1978. The costliest year was 2011 ($1.0M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1978: $216,696 paid 1979: $147,577 paid 1985: $23,733 paid 1986: $57,315 paid 1996: $3,855 paid 1997: $8,962 paid 2000: $0 paid 2004: $0 paid 2005: $10,479 paid 2007: $39,062 paid 2011: $1,008,945 paid 2014: $11,029 paid 2019: $1,621 paid 2011 · $1.0M 1978 2019
$1.5M
total paid
$6,117
average claim
$168K
largest single claim
28%
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 Valley, MT and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Valley 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.