Property Atlas

County hazard profile

Washington, OH

Ohio · pop. 59,732 · FIPS 39167

Relatively Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Landslide
dominant hazard
$22M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Washington $22M

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 64.41/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (64th percentile)
Social vulnerabilityRelatively Moderate 49.24/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (49th percentile)
Community resilienceRelatively Moderate 52.07/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (52nd percentile)

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Washington

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 1,295 flood-insurance claims totaling $18.3M in Washington since 1978. The costliest year was 2004 ($11.0M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1978: $1,132 paid 1979: $247,901 paid 1980: $23,501 paid 1981: $7,317 paid 1982: $0 paid 1984: $0 paid 1985: $6,571 paid 1987: $0 paid 1988: $8,525 paid 1990: $102,331 paid 1991: $36,535 paid 1994: $218,385 paid 1995: $14,228 paid 1996: $869,963 paid 1997: $82,880 paid 1998: $1,319,595 paid 2000: $6,381 paid 2001: $14,664 paid 2002: $0 paid 2003: $40,793 paid 2004: $11,014,686 paid 2005: $2,739,299 paid 2007: $8,851 paid 2008: $0 paid 2009: $18,426 paid 2010: $18,195 paid 2011: $138,422 paid 2012: $0 paid 2013: $184,764 paid 2015: $12,429 paid 2016: $3,993 paid 2017: $5,977 paid 2018: $608,128 paid 2019: $31,288 paid 2021: $0 paid 2022: $25,803 paid 2023: $0 paid 2024: $470,480 paid 2004 · $11.0M 1978 2024
$18.3M
total paid
$14,117
average claim
$347K
largest single claim
82%
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 Washington, OH and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Washington 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.