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County hazard profile

Sullivan, NH

New Hampshire · pop. 43,048 · FIPS 33019

Very Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Landslide
dominant hazard
$15M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Sullivan $15M

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 37.56/100
national median ~50 lower than most counties (38th percentile)
Social vulnerabilityVery Low 14.06/100
national median ~50 among the lowest nationally
Community resilienceRelatively High 69.69/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (70th percentile)

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Sullivan

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 62 flood-insurance claims totaling $1.3M in Sullivan since 1979. The costliest year was 2021 ($593K paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1979: $406 paid 1981: $14,922 paid 1983: $0 paid 1984: $9,424 paid 1986: $6,190 paid 1987: $2,332 paid 1992: $1,832 paid 1993: $0 paid 1996: $30,052 paid 1999: $0 paid 2005: $134,558 paid 2006: $11,079 paid 2007: $18,704 paid 2008: $2,053 paid 2011: $38,009 paid 2013: $45,946 paid 2014: $46,013 paid 2018: $0 paid 2019: $1,132 paid 2021: $592,952 paid 2023: $309,588 paid 2021 · $593K 1979 2023
$1.3M
total paid
$20,406
average claim
$500K
largest single claim
76%
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 Sullivan, NH and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Sullivan 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.