Property Atlas

County hazard profile

Nueces, TX

Texas · pop. 352,623 · FIPS 48355

Relatively High
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Cold Wave
dominant hazard
$186M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

near the national middle (57th percentile)

national median $15M/yr Nueces $186M

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 High 96.63/100
national median ~50 among the highest nationally
Social vulnerabilityRelatively High 76.78/100
national median ~50 higher than 77% of counties
Community resilienceVery High 86.67/100
national median ~50 higher than 87% of counties

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Nueces

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 8,665 flood-insurance claims totaling $186.6M in Nueces since 1978. The costliest year was 2017 ($145.6M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1978: $70,764 paid 1979: $971,498 paid 1980: $7,009,522 paid 1981: $802,157 paid 1982: $22,291 paid 1983: $79,801 paid 1984: $69,956 paid 1985: $311,143 paid 1986: $9,304 paid 1987: $20,961 paid 1988: $91,607 paid 1989: $0 paid 1990: $2,347 paid 1991: $324,672 paid 1992: $223,717 paid 1993: $57,819 paid 1994: $62,288 paid 1995: $125,951 paid 1996: $163,849 paid 1997: $1,781,124 paid 1998: $686,787 paid 1999: $582,235 paid 2000: $401,751 paid 2001: $304,662 paid 2002: $4,568,400 paid 2003: $122,610 paid 2004: $2,199,406 paid 2005: $66,119 paid 2006: $1,205,838 paid 2007: $748,118 paid 2008: $409,736 paid 2009: $49,381 paid 2010: $3,335,796 paid 2011: $52,705 paid 2012: $120,837 paid 2013: $186,816 paid 2014: $124,066 paid 2015: $1,724,467 paid 2016: $5,876,239 paid 2017: $145,593,309 paid 2018: $1,321,226 paid 2019: $423,795 paid 2020: $1,398,985 paid 2021: $1,649,667 paid 2022: $41,395 paid 2023: $380,209 paid 2024: $823,527 paid 2025: $0 paid 2026: $0 paid 2017 · $145.6M 1978 2026
$186.6M
total paid
$21,535
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 Nueces, TX and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Nueces 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.