Property Atlas

County hazard profile

Rhea, TN

Tennessee · pop. 32,839 · FIPS 47143

Relatively Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Landslide
dominant hazard
$14M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Rhea $14M

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 49.17/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (49th percentile)
Social vulnerabilityRelatively Moderate 57.82/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (58th percentile)
Community resilienceRelatively Low 33.62/100
national median ~50 lower than most counties (34th percentile)

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Rhea

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 82 flood-insurance claims totaling $1.7M in Rhea since 1980. The costliest year was 2019 ($1.0M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1980: $46,500 paid 1982: $0 paid 1990: $84,800 paid 1991: $2,545 paid 1992: $2,518 paid 1993: $3,433 paid 1997: $3,726 paid 2001: $0 paid 2002: $1,680 paid 2003: $55,637 paid 2004: $318,757 paid 2012: $0 paid 2013: $136,822 paid 2014: $24,953 paid 2015: $0 paid 2019: $1,000,910 paid 2021: $0 paid 2023: $5,112 paid 2019 · $1.0M 1980 2023
$1.7M
total paid
$20,578
average claim
$275K
largest single claim
67%
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 Rhea, TN and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Rhea 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.