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County hazard profile

Kent, RI

Rhode Island · pop. 170,332 · FIPS 44003

Relatively Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Hurricane
dominant hazard
$32M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Kent $32M

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 69.43/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (69th percentile)
Social vulnerabilityRelatively Low 23.35/100
national median ~50 among the lowest nationally
Community resilienceVery High 84.83/100
national median ~50 higher than 85% of counties

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Kent

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 1,300 flood-insurance claims totaling $21.5M in Kent since 1978. The costliest year was 2010 ($14.7M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1978: $66,748 paid 1979: $102,332 paid 1980: $6,451 paid 1981: $648 paid 1982: $277,000 paid 1983: $322,797 paid 1984: $30,646 paid 1985: $967 paid 1986: $0 paid 1987: $18,493 paid 1988: $0 paid 1989: $0 paid 1990: $0 paid 1991: $460,169 paid 1992: $5,595 paid 1993: $18,656 paid 1994: $1,000 paid 1995: $0 paid 1996: $721 paid 1997: $37,111 paid 1998: $48,600 paid 1999: $21,272 paid 2001: $110,672 paid 2003: $0 paid 2004: $11,073 paid 2005: $726,917 paid 2006: $135,098 paid 2007: $527,838 paid 2008: $149,827 paid 2009: $4,990 paid 2010: $14,714,414 paid 2011: $99,247 paid 2012: $743,820 paid 2013: $26,716 paid 2014: $58,466 paid 2015: $0 paid 2016: $0 paid 2017: $2,358 paid 2018: $1,070 paid 2019: $1,335 paid 2020: $1,650 paid 2021: $1,609 paid 2022: $54,144 paid 2023: $1,781,640 paid 2024: $926,144 paid 2010 · $14.7M 1978 2024
$21.5M
total paid
$16,537
average claim
$1.0M
largest single claim
73%
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 Kent, RI and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Kent 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.