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County hazard profile

Marion, TN

Tennessee · pop. 28,731 · FIPS 47115

Relatively Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Strong Wind
dominant hazard
$16M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Marion $16M

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 58.24/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (58th percentile)
Social vulnerabilityRelatively High 63.96/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (64th percentile)
Community resilienceRelatively Low 28.53/100
national median ~50 lower than most counties (29th percentile)

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Marion

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 117 flood-insurance claims totaling $1.2M in Marion since 1979. The costliest year was 2003 ($408K paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1979: $2,437 paid 1980: $2,776 paid 1982: $3,427 paid 1990: $31,773 paid 1994: $15,181 paid 1995: $3,050 paid 1998: $9,108 paid 1999: $5,384 paid 2000: $21,717 paid 2001: $0 paid 2002: $9,219 paid 2003: $408,399 paid 2004: $37,589 paid 2005: $0 paid 2009: $11,447 paid 2012: $3,439 paid 2013: $231,492 paid 2014: $0 paid 2015: $62,020 paid 2017: $20,552 paid 2018: $4,626 paid 2019: $54,572 paid 2020: $257,288 paid 2021: $7,910 paid 2003 · $408K 1979 2021
$1.2M
total paid
$10,286
average claim
$62K
largest single claim
64%
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 Marion, TN and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Marion 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.