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County hazard profile

Mingo, WV

West Virginia · pop. 23,504 · FIPS 54059

Relatively Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Landslide
dominant hazard
$18M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Mingo $18M

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 72.58/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (73rd percentile)
Social vulnerabilityVery High 93.89/100
national median ~50 among the highest nationally
Community resilienceVery Low 1.81/100
national median ~50 among the lowest nationally

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Mingo

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 1,676 flood-insurance claims totaling $30.4M in Mingo since 1978. The costliest year was 1984 ($17.1M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1978: $566,627 paid 1979: $133,198 paid 1980: $6,100 paid 1981: $247,518 paid 1982: $10,156 paid 1984: $17,146,852 paid 1985: $977 paid 1987: $0 paid 1989: $317,871 paid 1991: $13,982 paid 1994: $1,096 paid 1996: $33,183 paid 1997: $38,897 paid 2000: $18,667 paid 2002: $865,609 paid 2003: $175,161 paid 2004: $2,226,186 paid 2005: $55,335 paid 2006: $1,095 paid 2007: $235,177 paid 2009: $4,302,992 paid 2010: $497,166 paid 2011: $8,179 paid 2012: $12,888 paid 2014: $205,911 paid 2015: $11,097 paid 2016: $10,096 paid 2017: $12,184 paid 2018: $0 paid 2019: $3,395 paid 2020: $7,697 paid 2021: $224,941 paid 2022: $67,870 paid 2024: $1,380 paid 2025: $2,945,943 paid 1984 · $17.1M 1978 2025
$30.4M
total paid
$18,142
average claim
$979K
largest single claim
74%
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 Mingo, WV and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Mingo 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.