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County hazard profile

Wayne, PA

Pennsylvania · pop. 51,146 · FIPS 42127

Relatively Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Hurricane
dominant hazard
$17M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Wayne $17M

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 56.33/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (56th percentile)
Social vulnerabilityRelatively Moderate 50.16/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (50th percentile)
Community resilienceRelatively Low 37.28/100
national median ~50 lower than most counties (37th percentile)

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Wayne

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 221 flood-insurance claims totaling $4.7M in Wayne since 1978. The costliest year was 2006 ($2.5M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1978: $0 paid 1979: $7,399 paid 1982: $4,035 paid 1983: $4,130 paid 1984: $3,576 paid 1985: $19,769 paid 1993: $0 paid 1996: $136,566 paid 1998: $0 paid 1999: $0 paid 2002: $670 paid 2003: $58,772 paid 2004: $452,526 paid 2005: $710,927 paid 2006: $2,546,531 paid 2008: $5,862 paid 2009: $0 paid 2010: $21,285 paid 2011: $270,677 paid 2012: $32,403 paid 2013: $254,520 paid 2014: $227 paid 2018: $8,913 paid 2021: $178,899 paid 2025: $6,320 paid 2006 · $2.5M 1978 2025
$4.7M
total paid
$21,376
average claim
$316K
largest single claim
57%
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 Wayne, PA and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Wayne 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.