Property Atlas

County hazard profile

Iredell, NC

North Carolina · pop. 186,589 · FIPS 37097

Relatively Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Ice Storm
dominant hazard
$53M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Iredell $53M

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 80.79/100
national median ~50 higher than 81% of counties
Social vulnerabilityVery Low 16.57/100
national median ~50 among the lowest nationally
Community resilienceRelatively Moderate 54.39/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (54th percentile)

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Iredell

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 60 flood-insurance claims totaling $1.1M in Iredell since 1979. The costliest year was 2003 ($717K paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1979: $3,187 paid 1980: $1,922 paid 1981: $640 paid 1982: $1,238 paid 1983: $220 paid 1987: $0 paid 1996: $31,896 paid 1997: $0 paid 1998: $5,005 paid 2003: $717,218 paid 2004: $0 paid 2005: $22,177 paid 2008: $0 paid 2009: $16,207 paid 2010: $2,141 paid 2012: $0 paid 2013: $14,722 paid 2016: $171,207 paid 2018: $58,901 paid 2019: $32,040 paid 2020: $49,755 paid 2023: $0 paid 2024: $0 paid 2003 · $717K 1979 2024
$1.1M
total paid
$18,808
average claim
$168K
largest single claim
57%
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 Iredell, NC and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Iredell 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.