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County hazard profile

Bladen, NC

North Carolina · pop. 29,597 · FIPS 37017

Relatively Moderate
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Strong Wind
dominant hazard
$39M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Bladen $39M

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 84.57/100
national median ~50 higher than 85% of counties
Social vulnerabilityRelatively High 78.82/100
national median ~50 higher than 79% of counties
Community resilienceRelatively Low 30.09/100
national median ~50 lower than most counties (30th percentile)

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Bladen

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 195 flood-insurance claims totaling $9.2M in Bladen since 1984. The costliest year was 2018 ($5.2M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1984: $2,902 paid 1988: $0 paid 1991: $460 paid 1992: $3,055 paid 1995: $1,556 paid 1996: $246,325 paid 1997: $4,280 paid 1998: $7,430 paid 1999: $519,630 paid 2001: $1,077 paid 2003: $11,413 paid 2005: $3,936 paid 2010: $4,474 paid 2015: $4,076 paid 2016: $2,809,746 paid 2018: $5,157,236 paid 2020: $48,172 paid 2023: $2,526 paid 2024: $336,965 paid 2018 · $5.2M 1984 2024
$9.2M
total paid
$47,001
average claim
$350K
largest single claim
55%
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 Bladen, NC and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Bladen 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.