Property Atlas

County hazard profile

Ransom, ND

North Dakota · pop. 5,692 · FIPS 38073

Very Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Ice Storm
dominant hazard
$6M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Ransom $6M

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 indexVery Low 13.2/100
national median ~50 among the lowest nationally
Social vulnerabilityRelatively Low 22.04/100
national median ~50 among the lowest nationally
Community resilienceVery High 96.22/100
national median ~50 among the highest nationally

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Ransom

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 148 flood-insurance claims totaling $731K in Ransom since 1978. The costliest year was 2009 ($311K paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1978: $31,905 paid 1979: $71,804 paid 1980: $0 paid 1981: $3,081 paid 1993: $2,797 paid 1995: $4,552 paid 1996: $3,277 paid 1997: $85,777 paid 1998: $0 paid 1999: $0 paid 2009: $311,059 paid 2010: $55,269 paid 2011: $150,810 paid 2018: $0 paid 2022: $10,364 paid 2009 · $311K 1978 2022
$731K
total paid
$4,937
average claim
$106K
largest single claim
51%
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 Ransom, ND and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Ransom 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.