Property Atlas

County hazard profile

Kings, NY

New York · pop. 2,735,309 · FIPS 36047

Relatively High
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Winter Weather
dominant hazard
$375M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the highest nationally

national median $15M/yr Kings $375M

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 99.27/100
national median ~50 among the highest nationally
Social vulnerabilityVery High 96.53/100
national median ~50 among the highest nationally
Community resilienceVery Low 12.05/100
national median ~50 among the lowest nationally

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Kings

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 6,304 flood-insurance claims totaling $329.5M in Kings since 1978. The costliest year was 2012 ($306.8M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1978: $295,416 paid 1979: $735,337 paid 1980: $688,474 paid 1981: $337,438 paid 1982: $76,161 paid 1983: $261,883 paid 1984: $397,234 paid 1985: $29,909 paid 1986: $0 paid 1987: $7,040 paid 1988: $19,345 paid 1989: $47,385 paid 1990: $32,457 paid 1991: $69,891 paid 1992: $3,416,044 paid 1993: $138,594 paid 1994: $324 paid 1995: $0 paid 1996: $657,318 paid 1997: $6,377 paid 1998: $5,564 paid 1999: $20,886 paid 2000: $9,869 paid 2001: $2,502 paid 2003: $8,135 paid 2004: $61,504 paid 2005: $54,331 paid 2006: $15,869 paid 2007: $77,591 paid 2008: $46,673 paid 2009: $8,384 paid 2010: $80,503 paid 2011: $2,764,849 paid 2012: $306,847,180 paid 2013: $45,890 paid 2014: $277,786 paid 2015: $24,270 paid 2016: $23,860 paid 2017: $13,011 paid 2018: $136,148 paid 2019: $41,535 paid 2020: $29,308 paid 2021: $6,095,656 paid 2022: $971,823 paid 2023: $3,957,189 paid 2024: $43,538 paid 2025: $544,567 paid 2026: $29,060 paid 2012 · $306.8M 1978 2026
$329.5M
total paid
$52,261
average claim
$5.4M
largest single claim
51%
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 Kings, NY and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Kings 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.