Property Atlas

County hazard profile

Transylvania, NC

North Carolina · pop. 32,927 · FIPS 37175

Relatively Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Landslide
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 Transylvania $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 64.25/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (64th percentile)
Social vulnerabilityRelatively High 75.41/100
national median ~50 higher than 75% of counties
Community resilienceRelatively Low 38.07/100
national median ~50 lower than most counties (38th percentile)

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Transylvania

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 153 flood-insurance claims totaling $6.3M in Transylvania since 1979. The costliest year was 2024 ($4.7M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1979: $33,906 paid 1986: $0 paid 1989: $0 paid 1994: $99,807 paid 1996: $0 paid 1998: $36,308 paid 2004: $343,458 paid 2005: $4,767 paid 2009: $40,267 paid 2010: $0 paid 2013: $1,177 paid 2017: $0 paid 2018: $14,961 paid 2019: $24,076 paid 2020: $13,991 paid 2021: $1,034,960 paid 2024: $4,653,126 paid 2024 · $4.7M 1979 2024
$6.3M
total paid
$41,182
average claim
$625K
largest single claim
71%
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 Transylvania, NC and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Transylvania 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.