Property Atlas

County hazard profile

Washington, TN

Tennessee · pop. 132,934 · FIPS 47179

Relatively Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Landslide
dominant hazard
$23M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Washington $23M

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 61.16/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (61st percentile)
Social vulnerabilityRelatively Low 36.77/100
national median ~50 lower than most counties (37th percentile)
Community resilienceRelatively High 71.95/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (72nd percentile)

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Washington

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 151 flood-insurance claims totaling $6.0M in Washington since 1979. The costliest year was 2024 ($2.1M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1979: $127,053 paid 1980: $1,482 paid 1981: $849 paid 1982: $1,009 paid 1984: $2,248 paid 1987: $21,000 paid 1990: $0 paid 1991: $1,387 paid 1994: $906 paid 1995: $39,090 paid 1998: $49,699 paid 2000: $467 paid 2001: $61,370 paid 2002: $14,578 paid 2003: $1,326,998 paid 2004: $40,620 paid 2008: $25,211 paid 2009: $10,944 paid 2012: $1,605,243 paid 2013: $109,101 paid 2016: $16,721 paid 2017: $6,791 paid 2019: $106,856 paid 2020: $384,416 paid 2021: $3,623 paid 2023: $18,837 paid 2024: $2,069,953 paid 2024 · $2.1M 1979 2024
$6.0M
total paid
$40,043
average claim
$1.0M
largest single claim
56%
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 Washington, TN and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Washington 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.