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County hazard profile

Dickson, TN

Tennessee · pop. 54,292 · FIPS 47043

Relatively Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Earthquake
dominant hazard
$19M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Dickson $19M

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 53.47/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (53rd percentile)
Social vulnerabilityRelatively Low 29.07/100
national median ~50 lower than most counties (29th percentile)
Community resilienceRelatively Low 34.26/100
national median ~50 lower than most counties (34th percentile)

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Dickson

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 71 flood-insurance claims totaling $4.0M in Dickson since 1989. The costliest year was 2010 ($747K paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1989: $10,000 paid 1990: $3,968 paid 1991: $31,164 paid 1995: $24,774 paid 1997: $41,593 paid 1998: $4,126 paid 1999: $29,300 paid 2000: $22,339 paid 2002: $10,846 paid 2003: $12,742 paid 2004: $146,778 paid 2008: $0 paid 2010: $747,383 paid 2011: $0 paid 2012: $0 paid 2014: $461,723 paid 2017: $164,796 paid 2018: $506,812 paid 2019: $638,693 paid 2020: $433,291 paid 2021: $729,743 paid 2022: $5,766 paid 2024: $9,922 paid 2025: $13,772 paid 2010 · $747K 1989 2025
$4.0M
total paid
$57,036
average claim
$435K
largest single claim
58%
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 Dickson, TN and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Dickson 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.