Property Atlas

County hazard profile

Yates, NY

New York · pop. 24,764 · FIPS 36123

Relatively Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Drought
dominant hazard
$10M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Yates $10M

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 Low 46.63/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (47th percentile)
Social vulnerabilityVery High 91.98/100
national median ~50 among the highest nationally
Community resilienceRelatively High 78.37/100
national median ~50 higher than 78% of counties

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Yates

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 147 flood-insurance claims totaling $1.1M in Yates since 1978. The costliest year was 2014 ($565K paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1978: $18,652 paid 1979: $12,017 paid 1982: $3,126 paid 1983: $506 paid 1984: $26,145 paid 1985: $216 paid 1986: $1,442 paid 1987: $5,193 paid 1989: $0 paid 1991: $0 paid 1992: $0 paid 1993: $90,414 paid 1994: $11,102 paid 1996: $26,616 paid 1999: $2,923 paid 2001: $0 paid 2004: $3,408 paid 2006: $7,316 paid 2009: $0 paid 2011: $0 paid 2014: $565,189 paid 2015: $97,073 paid 2017: $0 paid 2018: $12,566 paid 2021: $204,886 paid 2026: $0 paid 2014 · $565K 1978 2026
$1.1M
total paid
$7,407
average claim
$147K
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 Yates, NY and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Yates 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.