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County hazard profile

DeWitt, TX

Texas · pop. 19,811 · FIPS 48123

Relatively Moderate
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Hurricane
dominant hazard
$31M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr DeWitt $31M

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 Moderate 83.91/100
national median ~50 higher than 84% of counties
Social vulnerabilityVery High 97.68/100
national median ~50 among the highest nationally
Community resilienceRelatively Low 37.79/100
national median ~50 lower than most counties (38th percentile)

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in DeWitt

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 227 flood-insurance claims totaling $5.9M in DeWitt since 1980. The costliest year was 1998 ($2.4M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1980: $10,913 paid 1981: $47,800 paid 1987: $400,258 paid 1991: $216,883 paid 1992: $8,000 paid 1993: $11,440 paid 1994: $57,616 paid 1997: $48,938 paid 1998: $2,365,667 paid 2001: $21,896 paid 2002: $235,912 paid 2004: $559,221 paid 2007: $196,224 paid 2009: $118,385 paid 2010: $5,087 paid 2012: $1,812 paid 2013: $32,800 paid 2014: $171,881 paid 2015: $64,249 paid 2017: $1,259,007 paid 2021: $8,003 paid 2023: $72,173 paid 1998 · $2.4M 1980 2023
$5.9M
total paid
$26,054
average claim
$219K
largest single claim
69%
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 DeWitt, TX and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether DeWitt 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.