Property Atlas

County hazard profile

Washington, VT

Vermont · pop. 59,777 · FIPS 50023

Relatively Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Landslide
dominant hazard
$22M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Washington $22M

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 52.23/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (52nd percentile)
Social vulnerabilityVery Low 12.95/100
national median ~50 among the lowest nationally
Community resilienceVery High 93.96/100
national median ~50 among the highest nationally

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Washington

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 1,234 flood-insurance claims totaling $49.8M in Washington since 1978. The costliest year was 2023 ($23.4M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1978: $24,617 paid 1979: $4,003 paid 1980: $16,663 paid 1981: $83,882 paid 1982: $2,202 paid 1983: $41,268 paid 1984: $98,326 paid 1986: $1,533 paid 1987: $3,760 paid 1989: $6,446 paid 1990: $0 paid 1992: $1,453,571 paid 1993: $0 paid 1994: $0 paid 1995: $39,827 paid 1996: $55,281 paid 1997: $9,609 paid 1998: $308,773 paid 2000: $307,409 paid 2004: $0 paid 2005: $8,105 paid 2006: $9,521 paid 2007: $141,986 paid 2008: $40,714 paid 2010: $0 paid 2011: $18,800,177 paid 2013: $12,889 paid 2014: $17,338 paid 2015: $291,998 paid 2016: $0 paid 2017: $0 paid 2018: $1,180 paid 2019: $38,918 paid 2021: $0 paid 2023: $23,377,747 paid 2024: $4,619,150 paid 2023 · $23.4M 1978 2024
$49.8M
total paid
$40,370
average claim
$1.0M
largest single claim
87%
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, VT 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.