Property Atlas

County hazard profile

Scotts Bluff, NE

Nebraska · pop. 36,060 · FIPS 31157

Relatively Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Hail
dominant hazard
$25M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Scotts Bluff $25M

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 63.84/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (64th percentile)
Social vulnerabilityRelatively Low 31.46/100
national median ~50 lower than most counties (31st percentile)
Community resilienceRelatively Low 38.77/100
national median ~50 lower than most counties (39th percentile)

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Scotts Bluff

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 52 flood-insurance claims totaling $178K in Scotts Bluff since 1980. The costliest year was 2011 ($86K paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1980: $1,176 paid 1983: $2,943 paid 1986: $0 paid 1987: $268 paid 1993: $0 paid 1997: $0 paid 2008: $3,848 paid 2010: $68,647 paid 2011: $86,435 paid 2013: $13,069 paid 2015: $0 paid 2016: $0 paid 2018: $1,331 paid 2024: $0 paid 2011 · $86K 1980 2024
$178K
total paid
$3,418
average claim
$39K
largest single claim
63%
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 Scotts Bluff, NE and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Scotts Bluff 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.