Property Atlas

County hazard profile

Bronx, NY

New York · pop. 1,471,631 · FIPS 36005

Relatively High
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Heat Wave
dominant hazard
$212M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

near the national middle (66th percentile)

national median $15M/yr Bronx $212M

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 High 98.35/100
national median ~50 among the highest nationally
Social vulnerabilityVery High 99.65/100
national median ~50 among the highest nationally
Community resilienceVery Low 6.01/100
national median ~50 among the lowest nationally

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Bronx

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 1,945 flood-insurance claims totaling $27.4M in Bronx since 1978. The costliest year was 2012 ($13.1M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1978: $56,633 paid 1979: $163,815 paid 1980: $184,998 paid 1981: $27,720 paid 1982: $9,060 paid 1983: $28,775 paid 1984: $42,033 paid 1985: $2,752 paid 1986: $5,125 paid 1987: $0 paid 1988: $1,396 paid 1989: $2,521 paid 1990: $29,176 paid 1991: $121,241 paid 1992: $2,706,775 paid 1993: $43,069 paid 1994: $26,857 paid 1995: $0 paid 1996: $891,578 paid 1997: $9,600 paid 1998: $10,267 paid 1999: $405,558 paid 2000: $0 paid 2001: $24,430 paid 2002: $11,726 paid 2003: $25,127 paid 2004: $1,653 paid 2005: $57,617 paid 2006: $15,284 paid 2007: $640,202 paid 2008: $16,231 paid 2009: $4,986 paid 2010: $725,974 paid 2011: $861,864 paid 2012: $13,083,611 paid 2013: $0 paid 2014: $18,188 paid 2015: $0 paid 2016: $0 paid 2017: $0 paid 2018: $222,179 paid 2019: $17,926 paid 2020: $7,898 paid 2021: $5,968,068 paid 2022: $123,884 paid 2023: $643,739 paid 2024: $166,284 paid 2025: $4,862 paid 2012 · $13.1M 1978 2025
$27.4M
total paid
$14,093
average claim
$1.0M
largest single claim
59%
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 Bronx, NY and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Bronx 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.