Property Atlas

County hazard profile

Burlington, NJ

New Jersey · pop. 461,561 · FIPS 34005

Relatively Moderate
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Strong Wind
dominant hazard
$176M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

near the national middle (54th percentile)

national median $15M/yr Burlington $176M

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 Moderate 93.61/100
national median ~50 among the highest nationally
Social vulnerabilityVery Low 16.28/100
national median ~50 among the lowest nationally
Community resilienceVery High 92.72/100
national median ~50 among the highest nationally

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Burlington

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 2,178 flood-insurance claims totaling $29.4M in Burlington since 1978. The costliest year was 2004 ($8.0M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1978: $153,689 paid 1979: $127,687 paid 1980: $141,016 paid 1981: $4,014 paid 1982: $4,816 paid 1983: $12,748 paid 1984: $64,147 paid 1985: $45,419 paid 1986: $6,821 paid 1987: $49,879 paid 1988: $678 paid 1989: $292,078 paid 1990: $32,375 paid 1991: $26,335 paid 1992: $180,345 paid 1993: $12,846 paid 1994: $83,310 paid 1996: $185,872 paid 1997: $20,932 paid 1998: $172,180 paid 1999: $171,821 paid 2000: $29,489 paid 2001: $0 paid 2002: $0 paid 2003: $14,391 paid 2004: $7,999,557 paid 2005: $180,761 paid 2006: $30,606 paid 2007: $2,992,418 paid 2008: $25,172 paid 2009: $79,271 paid 2010: $217,995 paid 2011: $5,532,936 paid 2012: $3,668,752 paid 2013: $43,037 paid 2014: $1,154,486 paid 2015: $0 paid 2016: $703 paid 2017: $77,973 paid 2018: $1,029,996 paid 2019: $3,261,331 paid 2020: $46,600 paid 2021: $286,863 paid 2022: $6,272 paid 2023: $108,629 paid 2024: $811,671 paid 2025: $0 paid 2004 · $8.0M 1978 2025
$29.4M
total paid
$13,493
average claim
$789K
largest single claim
69%
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 Burlington, NJ and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Burlington 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.