Property Atlas

County hazard profile

Burleson, TX

Texas · pop. 17,632 · FIPS 48051

Very Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Drought
dominant hazard
$7M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Burleson $7M

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 indexVery Low 29.13/100
national median ~50 lower than most counties (29th percentile)
Social vulnerabilityRelatively High 68.61/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (69th percentile)
Community resilienceRelatively Low 30.44/100
national median ~50 lower than most counties (30th percentile)

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Burleson

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 62 flood-insurance claims totaling $1.5M in Burleson since 1979. The costliest year was 2015 ($429K paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1979: $1,929 paid 1981: $5,228 paid 1983: $0 paid 1989: $4,886 paid 1990: $22,100 paid 1991: $18,700 paid 1993: $0 paid 1994: $40,211 paid 1995: $7,300 paid 1996: $16,439 paid 1997: $15,103 paid 1998: $20,113 paid 2003: $13,437 paid 2008: $2,599 paid 2009: $17,708 paid 2010: $127,476 paid 2013: $14,674 paid 2015: $429,100 paid 2016: $308,476 paid 2017: $411,140 paid 2019: $0 paid 2021: $17,979 paid 2015 · $429K 1979 2021
$1.5M
total paid
$24,106
average claim
$429K
largest single claim
73%
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 Burleson, TX and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Burleson 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.