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County hazard profile

Pulaski, VA

Virginia · pop. 33,795 · FIPS 51155

Relatively Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Landslide
dominant hazard
$11M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Pulaski $11M

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 45.93/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (46th percentile)
Social vulnerabilityRelatively High 72.33/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (72nd percentile)
Community resilienceRelatively Moderate 50.7/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (51st percentile)

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Pulaski

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 99 flood-insurance claims totaling $2.7M in Pulaski since 1979. The costliest year was 2024 ($1.9M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1979: $0 paid 1989: $36,011 paid 1990: $1,689 paid 1992: $27,329 paid 1993: $9,914 paid 1994: $1,794 paid 1995: $161,860 paid 1996: $18,504 paid 1997: $0 paid 1998: $5,759 paid 2003: $5,837 paid 2009: $15,685 paid 2010: $25,418 paid 2013: $29,063 paid 2015: $266,932 paid 2016: $0 paid 2017: $27,773 paid 2018: $98,263 paid 2020: $91,256 paid 2024: $1,852,456 paid 2024 · $1.9M 1979 2024
$2.7M
total paid
$27,026
average claim
$500K
largest single claim
83%
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 Pulaski, VA and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Pulaski 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.