Property Atlas

County hazard profile

Jackson, OR

Oregon · pop. 222,969 · FIPS 41029

Relatively Moderate
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Wildfire
dominant hazard
$122M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

lower than most counties (38th percentile)

national median $15M/yr Jackson $122M

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 Moderate 92.53/100
national median ~50 among the highest nationally
Social vulnerabilityRelatively Low 39.98/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (40th percentile)
Community resilienceRelatively Moderate 48.06/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (48th percentile)

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Jackson

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 304 flood-insurance claims totaling $2.5M in Jackson since 1978. The costliest year was 1997 ($1.1M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1978: $0 paid 1979: $167 paid 1981: $25,702 paid 1982: $98 paid 1983: $8,314 paid 1989: $0 paid 1990: $2,025 paid 1991: $572 paid 1993: $0 paid 1994: $0 paid 1995: $26,956 paid 1996: $312,172 paid 1997: $1,084,437 paid 1998: $7,527 paid 2000: $5,192 paid 2002: $12,343 paid 2003: $0 paid 2004: $0 paid 2005: $686,409 paid 2006: $44,213 paid 2007: $212 paid 2008: $8,231 paid 2009: $0 paid 2012: $78,632 paid 2013: $10,365 paid 2014: $0 paid 2015: $13,120 paid 2016: $0 paid 2017: $35,085 paid 2019: $20,094 paid 2020: $0 paid 2022: $16,692 paid 2024: $73,754 paid 2025: $13,740 paid 2026: $0 paid 1997 · $1.1M 1978 2026
$2.5M
total paid
$8,178
average claim
$96K
largest single claim
67%
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 Jackson, OR and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Jackson 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.