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County hazard profile

Cleveland, NC

North Carolina · pop. 99,458 · FIPS 37045

Relatively Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Ice Storm
dominant hazard
$27M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Cleveland $27M

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 70.01/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (70th percentile)
Social vulnerabilityRelatively Moderate 44.12/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (44th percentile)
Community resilienceRelatively Low 33.3/100
national median ~50 lower than most counties (33rd percentile)

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Cleveland

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 54 flood-insurance claims totaling $740K in Cleveland since 1979. The costliest year was 2010 ($241K paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1979: $0 paid 1980: $0 paid 1984: $0 paid 1985: $0 paid 1986: $425 paid 1990: $3,199 paid 1991: $10,573 paid 1992: $1,869 paid 1995: $114,607 paid 2000: $0 paid 2001: $0 paid 2003: $1,462 paid 2004: $27,831 paid 2008: $1,231 paid 2009: $0 paid 2010: $241,373 paid 2012: $0 paid 2013: $41,845 paid 2020: $68,453 paid 2021: $7,890 paid 2024: $219,688 paid 2010 · $241K 1979 2024
$740K
total paid
$13,712
average claim
$170K
largest single claim
76%
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 Cleveland, NC and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Cleveland 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.