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County hazard profile

Franklin, NC

North Carolina · pop. 68,431 · FIPS 37069

Relatively Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Winter Weather
dominant hazard
$17M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Franklin $17M

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 51.72/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (52nd percentile)
Social vulnerabilityRelatively Low 38.36/100
national median ~50 lower than most counties (38th percentile)
Community resilienceRelatively Low 30.95/100
national median ~50 lower than most counties (31st percentile)

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Franklin

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 23 flood-insurance claims totaling $279K in Franklin since 1979. The costliest year was 2003 ($113K paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1979: $3,765 paid 1992: $7,099 paid 1998: $28,567 paid 1999: $80,456 paid 2003: $113,348 paid 2006: $6,387 paid 2008: $0 paid 2009: $7,343 paid 2010: $0 paid 2023: $0 paid 2024: $32,053 paid 2003 · $113K 1979 2024
$279K
total paid
$12,131
average claim
$83K
largest single claim
74%
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 Franklin, NC and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Franklin 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.