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County hazard profile

Strafford, NH

New Hampshire · pop. 130,861 · FIPS 33017

Relatively Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Ice Storm
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 Strafford $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 64.09/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (64th percentile)
Social vulnerabilityVery Low 16.57/100
national median ~50 among the lowest nationally
Community resilienceRelatively High 73.51/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (74th percentile)

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Strafford

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 137 flood-insurance claims totaling $2.3M in Strafford since 1978. The costliest year was 2007 ($880K paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1978: $20,205 paid 1979: $0 paid 1983: $26,381 paid 1984: $8,803 paid 1987: $7,877 paid 1988: $0 paid 1993: $858 paid 1996: $133,065 paid 1997: $1,139 paid 1998: $26,112 paid 1999: $0 paid 2001: $0 paid 2003: $3,249 paid 2005: $0 paid 2006: $732,340 paid 2007: $879,898 paid 2009: $11,028 paid 2010: $343,890 paid 2011: $1,201 paid 2013: $0 paid 2014: $2,057 paid 2015: $0 paid 2017: $0 paid 2022: $3,096 paid 2023: $40,097 paid 2024: $57,556 paid 2007 · $880K 1978 2024
$2.3M
total paid
$16,780
average claim
$245K
largest single claim
50%
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 Strafford, NH and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Strafford 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.