Property Atlas

County hazard profile

Burnett, WI

Wisconsin · pop. 16,515 · FIPS 55013

Relatively Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Cold Wave
dominant hazard
$12M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Burnett $12M

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 49.33/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (49th percentile)
Social vulnerabilityRelatively High 76.69/100
national median ~50 higher than 77% of counties
Community resilienceRelatively Low 28.31/100
national median ~50 lower than most counties (28th percentile)

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Burnett

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 36 flood-insurance claims totaling $280K in Burnett since 1978. The costliest year was 2001 ($92K paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1978: $0 paid 1980: $0 paid 1996: $6,600 paid 1997: $3,165 paid 2000: $2,687 paid 2001: $91,904 paid 2002: $697 paid 2005: $14,648 paid 2014: $0 paid 2016: $17,469 paid 2018: $0 paid 2019: $1,006 paid 2020: $81,253 paid 2023: $60,100 paid 2025: $0 paid 2001 · $92K 1978 2025
$280K
total paid
$7,765
average claim
$52K
largest single claim
53%
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 Burnett, WI and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Burnett 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.