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County hazard profile

Blair, PA

Pennsylvania · pop. 122,666 · FIPS 42013

Relatively Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Winter Weather
dominant hazard
$34M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Blair $34M

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 77.67/100
national median ~50 higher than 78% of counties
Social vulnerabilityRelatively Moderate 57.6/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (58th percentile)
Community resilienceVery High 94.12/100
national median ~50 among the highest nationally

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Blair

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 1,112 flood-insurance claims totaling $8.5M in Blair since 1978. The costliest year was 2004 ($2.6M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1978: $22,118 paid 1979: $57,704 paid 1980: $2,023 paid 1981: $5,331 paid 1982: $10,432 paid 1983: $21,636 paid 1984: $128,855 paid 1985: $104 paid 1986: $0 paid 1987: $41,769 paid 1989: $11,639 paid 1990: $8,666 paid 1991: $1,503 paid 1993: $576,049 paid 1994: $59,061 paid 1995: $81,693 paid 1996: $1,872,462 paid 1997: $711,355 paid 1999: $7,126 paid 2000: $35,266 paid 2001: $13,475 paid 2003: $250,000 paid 2004: $2,553,533 paid 2005: $0 paid 2006: $0 paid 2007: $4,745 paid 2009: $1,530 paid 2010: $78,990 paid 2011: $73,665 paid 2012: $3,229 paid 2013: $1,800 paid 2014: $11,798 paid 2015: $6,654 paid 2017: $7,093 paid 2018: $655,341 paid 2019: $567,791 paid 2020: $0 paid 2021: $559,477 paid 2022: $21,535 paid 2024: $9,898 paid 2025: $33,053 paid 2004 · $2.6M 1978 2025
$8.5M
total paid
$7,651
average claim
$500K
largest single claim
70%
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 Blair, PA and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Blair 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.