Property Atlas

County hazard profile

Pleasants, WV

West Virginia · pop. 7,647 · FIPS 54073

Very Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Landslide
dominant hazard
$6M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Pleasants $6M

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 indexVery Low 20.26/100
national median ~50 among the lowest nationally
Social vulnerabilityRelatively High 76.3/100
national median ~50 higher than 76% of counties
Community resilienceRelatively High 67.3/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (67th percentile)

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Pleasants

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 43 flood-insurance claims totaling $536K in Pleasants since 1978. The costliest year was 2004 ($340K paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1978: $2,273 paid 1979: $5,280 paid 1980: $7,579 paid 1981: $4,129 paid 1982: $2,241 paid 1983: $642 paid 1985: $13,771 paid 1987: $0 paid 1989: $4,740 paid 1990: $882 paid 1996: $13,137 paid 1998: $45,008 paid 2003: $4,906 paid 2004: $340,365 paid 2005: $78,731 paid 2010: $1,515 paid 2018: $10,703 paid 2004 · $340K 1978 2018
$536K
total paid
$12,463
average claim
$115K
largest single claim
58%
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 Pleasants, WV and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Pleasants 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.