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County hazard profile

Colleton, SC

South Carolina · pop. 38,512 · FIPS 45029

Relatively Moderate
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Hurricane
dominant hazard
$38M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Colleton $38M

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 85.46/100
national median ~50 higher than 85% of counties
Social vulnerabilityVery High 90.01/100
national median ~50 among the highest nationally
Community resilienceRelatively Moderate 45.23/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (45th percentile)

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Colleton

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 766 flood-insurance claims totaling $7.2M in Colleton since 1979. The costliest year was 2016 ($2.9M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1979: $169,115 paid 1980: $0 paid 1983: $1,783 paid 1985: $0 paid 1986: $19,224 paid 1987: $38,840 paid 1989: $78,813 paid 1990: $12,178 paid 1991: $0 paid 1992: $9,333 paid 1993: $27,072 paid 1994: $11,145 paid 1995: $29,979 paid 1996: $38,118 paid 1997: $0 paid 1998: $20,280 paid 1999: $21,344 paid 2000: $4,070 paid 2001: $211,310 paid 2002: $40,645 paid 2003: $7,151 paid 2004: $25,058 paid 2005: $180,993 paid 2007: $624 paid 2012: $0 paid 2013: $24,090 paid 2015: $527,104 paid 2016: $2,885,924 paid 2017: $519,319 paid 2018: $34,000 paid 2019: $0 paid 2021: $43,237 paid 2023: $104,876 paid 2024: $2,145,734 paid 2025: $4,588 paid 2016 · $2.9M 1979 2025
$7.2M
total paid
$9,446
average claim
$172K
largest single claim
96%
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 Colleton, SC and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Colleton 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.