Property Atlas

County hazard profile

Pasquotank, NC

North Carolina · pop. 40,457 · FIPS 37139

Relatively Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Hurricane
dominant hazard
$18M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Pasquotank $18M

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 58.68/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (59th percentile)
Social vulnerabilityRelatively Moderate 57.82/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (58th percentile)
Community resilienceRelatively High 70.67/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (71st percentile)

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Pasquotank

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 531 flood-insurance claims totaling $6.5M in Pasquotank since 1979. The costliest year was 2016 ($2.5M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1979: $2,138 paid 1982: $134 paid 1983: $0 paid 1985: $2,320 paid 1988: $0 paid 1989: $0 paid 1991: $0 paid 1993: $36,898 paid 1996: $176,044 paid 1998: $28,228 paid 1999: $1,540,810 paid 2001: $0 paid 2002: $0 paid 2003: $1,010,457 paid 2004: $3,488 paid 2005: $466 paid 2006: $451,921 paid 2008: $2,955 paid 2009: $56,799 paid 2010: $198,504 paid 2011: $34,271 paid 2012: $0 paid 2014: $0 paid 2016: $2,506,918 paid 2017: $0 paid 2018: $155,853 paid 2019: $86,968 paid 2020: $176,182 paid 2021: $4,719 paid 2022: $942 paid 2024: $13,968 paid 2025: $0 paid 2016 · $2.5M 1979 2025
$6.5M
total paid
$12,224
average claim
$500K
largest single claim
88%
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 Pasquotank, NC and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Pasquotank 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.