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County hazard profile

Snohomish, WA

Washington · pop. 827,611 · FIPS 53061

Relatively High
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Landslide
dominant hazard
$409M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the highest nationally

national median $15M/yr Snohomish $409M

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 97.87/100
national median ~50 among the highest nationally
Social vulnerabilityVery Low 13.39/100
national median ~50 among the lowest nationally
Community resilienceRelatively High 77.83/100
national median ~50 higher than 78% of counties

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Snohomish

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 1,961 flood-insurance claims totaling $37.0M in Snohomish since 1978. The costliest year was 2006 ($7.9M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1978: $2,171 paid 1979: $49,338 paid 1980: $531,555 paid 1981: $0 paid 1982: $125,258 paid 1983: $3,421 paid 1984: $61,147 paid 1986: $597,278 paid 1987: $42,798 paid 1988: $8,960 paid 1989: $48,199 paid 1990: $3,627,482 paid 1991: $0 paid 1992: $31,119 paid 1993: $0 paid 1994: $6,104 paid 1995: $2,829,902 paid 1996: $1,192,269 paid 1997: $217,439 paid 1998: $27,925 paid 1999: $229,385 paid 2000: $0 paid 2001: $6,028 paid 2002: $25,046 paid 2003: $1,426,062 paid 2004: $75,201 paid 2005: $11,580 paid 2006: $7,907,850 paid 2007: $1,271,489 paid 2008: $160,462 paid 2009: $3,501,541 paid 2010: $1,432,188 paid 2011: $256,033 paid 2012: $754,809 paid 2013: $35,070 paid 2014: $2,785,430 paid 2015: $2,009,091 paid 2016: $311,229 paid 2017: $45,447 paid 2018: $169,554 paid 2019: $250,229 paid 2020: $499,163 paid 2021: $116,800 paid 2022: $242,010 paid 2023: $680,005 paid 2025: $3,399,809 paid 2026: $12,050 paid 2006 · $7.9M 1978 2026
$37.0M
total paid
$18,876
average claim
$350K
largest single claim
78%
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 Snohomish, WA and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Snohomish 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.