Property Atlas

County hazard profile

Nye, NV

Nevada · pop. 51,166 · FIPS 32023

Relatively Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Heat Wave
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 Nye $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 78.34/100
national median ~50 higher than 78% of counties
Social vulnerabilityVery High 81.17/100
national median ~50 higher than 81% of counties
Community resilienceVery Low 0.22/100
national median ~50 among the lowest nationally

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Nye

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 136 flood-insurance claims totaling $1.3M in Nye since 1983. The costliest year was 2021 ($616K paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1983: $0 paid 1984: $391 paid 1992: $0 paid 1997: $157,226 paid 1998: $0 paid 2001: $21,452 paid 2002: $0 paid 2003: $45,682 paid 2004: $3,194 paid 2005: $0 paid 2006: $10,686 paid 2007: $7,641 paid 2008: $0 paid 2009: $0 paid 2010: $0 paid 2012: $0 paid 2013: $17,528 paid 2014: $0 paid 2015: $11,431 paid 2016: $0 paid 2017: $2,106 paid 2020: $0 paid 2021: $615,959 paid 2022: $11,811 paid 2023: $246,746 paid 2024: $3,411 paid 2025: $185,562 paid 2021 · $616K 1983 2025
$1.3M
total paid
$9,859
average claim
$161K
largest single claim
96%
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 Nye, NV and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Nye 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.