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County hazard profile

Greenville, SC

South Carolina · pop. 525,347 · FIPS 45045

Relatively Moderate
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Ice Storm
dominant hazard
$169M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

near the national middle (52nd percentile)

national median $15M/yr Greenville $169M

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 93.96/100
national median ~50 among the highest nationally
Social vulnerabilityRelatively Low 21.85/100
national median ~50 among the lowest nationally
Community resilienceRelatively Moderate 57.25/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (57th percentile)

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Greenville

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 857 flood-insurance claims totaling $14.7M in Greenville since 1978. The costliest year was 2024 ($4.7M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1978: $4,976 paid 1979: $11,965 paid 1981: $1,676 paid 1982: $41,196 paid 1983: $0 paid 1984: $117,961 paid 1985: $20,889 paid 1986: $992 paid 1987: $10,963 paid 1988: $2,198 paid 1989: $67,252 paid 1990: $20,599 paid 1991: $4,688 paid 1993: $56,675 paid 1994: $3,503 paid 1995: $1,317,279 paid 1996: $36,949 paid 1997: $39,930 paid 1998: $84,795 paid 1999: $178,468 paid 2000: $4,822 paid 2002: $419,751 paid 2003: $143,432 paid 2004: $3,167,907 paid 2005: $444,505 paid 2006: $18,066 paid 2007: $17,079 paid 2009: $43,199 paid 2010: $42,299 paid 2011: $0 paid 2012: $3,714 paid 2013: $980,154 paid 2014: $1,224,009 paid 2015: $33,667 paid 2016: $35,132 paid 2017: $77,164 paid 2018: $97,911 paid 2019: $44,770 paid 2020: $1,025,632 paid 2021: $25,261 paid 2022: $11,901 paid 2023: $124,477 paid 2024: $4,690,892 paid 2025: $3,664 paid 2024 · $4.7M 1978 2025
$14.7M
total paid
$17,156
average claim
$628K
largest single claim
63%
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 Greenville, SC and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Greenville 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.