Property Atlas

County hazard profile

Jackson, NC

North Carolina · pop. 43,081 · FIPS 37099

Relatively Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Landslide
dominant hazard
$29M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Jackson $29M

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 80.47/100
national median ~50 higher than 80% of counties
Social vulnerabilityVery High 89.19/100
national median ~50 higher than 89% of counties
Community resilienceRelatively Low 38.93/100
national median ~50 lower than most counties (39th percentile)

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Jackson

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 97 flood-insurance claims totaling $1.1M in Jackson since 1990. The costliest year was 2004 ($592K paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1990: $0 paid 1991: $2,416 paid 1992: $0 paid 1994: $0 paid 1995: $0 paid 1996: $0 paid 1998: $8,205 paid 2003: $0 paid 2004: $592,450 paid 2005: $10,362 paid 2008: $0 paid 2009: $9,076 paid 2012: $6,165 paid 2013: $91,741 paid 2014: $0 paid 2015: $58,856 paid 2017: $4,300 paid 2018: $21,378 paid 2019: $3,383 paid 2020: $0 paid 2021: $8,502 paid 2022: $4,850 paid 2024: $290,719 paid 2025: $0 paid 2004 · $592K 1990 2025
$1.1M
total paid
$11,468
average claim
$154K
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 Jackson, NC and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Jackson 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.