Property Atlas

County hazard profile

Adams, OH

Ohio · pop. 27,463 · FIPS 39001

Relatively Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Riverine Flooding
dominant hazard
$13M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Adams $13M

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 43.83/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (44th percentile)
Social vulnerabilityRelatively Moderate 47.65/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (48th percentile)
Community resilienceRelatively Low 22.26/100
national median ~50 among the lowest nationally

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Adams

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 155 flood-insurance claims totaling $1.4M in Adams since 1978. The costliest year was 1997 ($937K paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1978: $7,552 paid 1979: $9,637 paid 1991: $761 paid 1996: $24,376 paid 1997: $937,322 paid 2000: $41,945 paid 2002: $27,971 paid 2005: $0 paid 2008: $12,842 paid 2010: $218,697 paid 2011: $63,723 paid 2014: $0 paid 2015: $4,224 paid 2016: $18,481 paid 2018: $25,013 paid 2021: $8,286 paid 2022: $12,073 paid 2025: $13,893 paid 1997 · $937K 1978 2025
$1.4M
total paid
$9,205
average claim
$105K
largest single claim
59%
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 Adams, OH and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Adams 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.