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County hazard profile

Pitt, NC

North Carolina · pop. 169,746 · FIPS 37147

Relatively Moderate
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Winter Weather
dominant hazard
$81M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

lower than most counties (25th percentile)

national median $15M/yr Pitt $81M

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 Moderate 89.82/100
national median ~50 among the highest nationally
Social vulnerabilityRelatively Moderate 42.24/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (42nd percentile)
Community resilienceRelatively High 77.86/100
national median ~50 higher than 78% of counties

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Pitt

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 1,205 flood-insurance claims totaling $36.3M in Pitt since 1979. The costliest year was 1999 ($26.6M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1979: $250 paid 1981: $20,500 paid 1982: $643 paid 1983: $583 paid 1985: $9,313 paid 1986: $1,590 paid 1987: $5,307 paid 1988: $0 paid 1992: $885 paid 1993: $3,286 paid 1996: $178,376 paid 1998: $122,813 paid 1999: $26,587,244 paid 2000: $0 paid 2001: $116 paid 2002: $440 paid 2003: $146,719 paid 2004: $39,270 paid 2005: $12,587 paid 2006: $316,349 paid 2008: $675 paid 2009: $18,468 paid 2010: $360,388 paid 2011: $675,859 paid 2012: $81,317 paid 2014: $22,678 paid 2015: $707 paid 2016: $7,027,329 paid 2017: $6,912 paid 2018: $393,953 paid 2020: $11,985 paid 2021: $40,712 paid 2023: $33,561 paid 2024: $81,748 paid 2025: $140,725 paid 1999 · $26.6M 1979 2025
$36.3M
total paid
$30,160
average claim
$893K
largest single claim
75%
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 Pitt, NC and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Pitt 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.