Property Atlas

County hazard profile

Queens, NY

New York · pop. 2,404,353 · FIPS 36081

Relatively High
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Winter Weather
dominant hazard
$377M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the highest nationally

national median $15M/yr Queens $377M

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 99.17/100
national median ~50 among the highest nationally
Social vulnerabilityVery High 93.48/100
national median ~50 among the highest nationally
Community resilienceVery Low 18.54/100
national median ~50 among the lowest nationally

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Queens

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 14,917 flood-insurance claims totaling $707.0M in Queens since 1978. The costliest year was 2012 ($631.7M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1978: $408,789 paid 1979: $754,448 paid 1980: $618,747 paid 1981: $386,148 paid 1982: $67,016 paid 1983: $244,285 paid 1984: $958,060 paid 1985: $134,069 paid 1986: $28,284 paid 1987: $258,823 paid 1988: $5,386 paid 1989: $77,584 paid 1990: $126,179 paid 1991: $979,490 paid 1992: $8,549,419 paid 1993: $989,669 paid 1994: $15,968 paid 1995: $525,435 paid 1996: $2,435,158 paid 1997: $1,170,930 paid 1998: $588,852 paid 1999: $933,715 paid 2000: $889,225 paid 2001: $16,043 paid 2002: $45,843 paid 2003: $30,566 paid 2004: $491,409 paid 2005: $1,551,399 paid 2006: $292,804 paid 2007: $1,838,028 paid 2008: $690,623 paid 2009: $228,796 paid 2010: $663,633 paid 2011: $14,707,742 paid 2012: $631,694,443 paid 2013: $61,490 paid 2014: $2,484,467 paid 2015: $15,331 paid 2016: $227,606 paid 2017: $22,254 paid 2018: $939,406 paid 2019: $297,408 paid 2020: $8,884 paid 2021: $12,112,581 paid 2022: $10,350,527 paid 2023: $5,644,005 paid 2024: $838,540 paid 2025: $569,891 paid 2026: $24,075 paid 2012 · $631.7M 1978 2026
$707.0M
total paid
$47,395
average claim
$2.7M
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 Queens, NY and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Queens 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.