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County hazard profile

Brown, OH

Ohio · pop. 43,652 · FIPS 39015

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 Brown $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 62.56/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (63rd percentile)
Social vulnerabilityRelatively High 71.72/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (72nd percentile)
Community resilienceRelatively Moderate 40.59/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (41st percentile)

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Brown

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 149 flood-insurance claims totaling $1.8M in Brown since 1978. The costliest year was 1997 ($1.4M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1978: $5,856 paid 1979: $21,230 paid 1991: $280 paid 1994: $10,200 paid 1996: $9,643 paid 1997: $1,367,621 paid 1998: $2,726 paid 2001: $8,917 paid 2002: $3,438 paid 2005: $30,498 paid 2007: $2,986 paid 2008: $0 paid 2009: $3,273 paid 2010: $7,513 paid 2015: $101,864 paid 2016: $0 paid 2017: $10,943 paid 2018: $52,526 paid 2020: $15,570 paid 2021: $9,200 paid 2022: $12,811 paid 2023: $0 paid 2025: $100,750 paid 1997 · $1.4M 1978 2025
$1.8M
total paid
$11,932
average claim
$116K
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 Brown, OH and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Brown 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.