Property Atlas

County hazard profile

Washington, TX

Texas · pop. 35,781 · FIPS 48477

Relatively Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Hurricane
dominant hazard
$21M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Washington $21M

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 71.98/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (72nd percentile)
Social vulnerabilityVery High 86.29/100
national median ~50 higher than 86% of counties
Community resilienceRelatively Moderate 58.81/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (59th percentile)

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Washington

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 71 flood-insurance claims totaling $1.7M in Washington since 1978. The costliest year was 2016 ($1.4M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1978: $11,906 paid 1979: $14,023 paid 1980: $238 paid 1983: $10,433 paid 1986: $3,868 paid 1989: $0 paid 1994: $0 paid 1998: $0 paid 2002: $13,946 paid 2003: $1,342 paid 2004: $1,931 paid 2005: $3,077 paid 2009: $9,366 paid 2012: $12,705 paid 2013: $17,606 paid 2014: $12,524 paid 2015: $94,576 paid 2016: $1,445,357 paid 2017: $9,616 paid 2019: $5,700 paid 2021: $0 paid 2016 · $1.4M 1978 2021
$1.7M
total paid
$23,496
average claim
$213K
largest single claim
27%
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.

Also available: structured data (JSON-LD) · plain text

What this is — and is not

This is FEMA/CDC modeled hazard exposure for Washington, TX 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.