Property Atlas

County hazard profile

Burke, NC

North Carolina · pop. 87,532 · FIPS 37023

Relatively Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Ice Storm
dominant hazard
$23M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Burke $23M

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 70.17/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (70th percentile)
Social vulnerabilityRelatively High 67.81/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (68th percentile)
Community resilienceRelatively Low 30.85/100
national median ~50 lower than most counties (31st percentile)

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Burke

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 131 flood-insurance claims totaling $11.3M in Burke since 1979. The costliest year was 2024 ($9.0M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1979: $0 paid 1993: $1,641 paid 1994: $42,120 paid 1995: $0 paid 1997: $6,220 paid 2003: $4,924 paid 2004: $2,071,687 paid 2005: $56,475 paid 2013: $84,105 paid 2018: $36,683 paid 2019: $0 paid 2020: $33,376 paid 2024: $8,967,031 paid 2024 · $9.0M 1979 2024
$11.3M
total paid
$86,292
average claim
$600K
largest single claim
60%
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 Burke, NC and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Burke 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.