Property Atlas

County hazard profile

Rockland, NY

New York · pop. 338,294 · FIPS 36087

Relatively Moderate
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Strong Wind
dominant hazard
$60M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Rockland $60M

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 88.42/100
national median ~50 higher than 88% of counties
Social vulnerabilityRelatively High 68.23/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (68th percentile)
Community resilienceRelatively High 69.05/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (69th percentile)

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Rockland

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 3,476 flood-insurance claims totaling $45.4M in Rockland since 1978. The costliest year was 2011 ($15.7M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1978: $192,321 paid 1979: $880,582 paid 1980: $587,365 paid 1981: $190,777 paid 1982: $93,748 paid 1983: $569,306 paid 1984: $809,417 paid 1985: $3,214 paid 1986: $139,507 paid 1987: $56,849 paid 1988: $509 paid 1989: $65,475 paid 1990: $63,104 paid 1991: $58,404 paid 1992: $160,675 paid 1993: $85,112 paid 1994: $50,611 paid 1995: $47,369 paid 1996: $164,720 paid 1997: $16,701 paid 1998: $0 paid 1999: $3,690,705 paid 2000: $15,370 paid 2001: $158,471 paid 2002: $109,870 paid 2003: $80,756 paid 2004: $562,255 paid 2005: $666,699 paid 2006: $12,089 paid 2007: $2,319,535 paid 2008: $129,090 paid 2009: $41,252 paid 2010: $676,743 paid 2011: $15,709,559 paid 2012: $10,246,611 paid 2013: $4,799 paid 2014: $65,291 paid 2015: $0 paid 2016: $0 paid 2017: $0 paid 2018: $68,586 paid 2020: $15,103 paid 2021: $4,842,760 paid 2022: $252,397 paid 2023: $1,112,726 paid 2024: $304,252 paid 2025: $49,718 paid 2026: $0 paid 2011 · $15.7M 1978 2026
$45.4M
total paid
$13,052
average claim
$627K
largest single claim
38%
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 Rockland, NY and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Rockland 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.