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County hazard profile

Chippewa, WI

Wisconsin · pop. 66,228 · FIPS 55017

Relatively Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Cold Wave
dominant hazard
$32M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Chippewa $32M

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 67.33/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (67th percentile)
Social vulnerabilityVery Low 18.73/100
national median ~50 among the lowest nationally
Community resilienceVery High 81.97/100
national median ~50 higher than 82% of counties

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Chippewa

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 46 flood-insurance claims totaling $337K in Chippewa since 1979. The costliest year was 2016 ($201K paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1979: $4,965 paid 1980: $1,120 paid 1981: $0 paid 1982: $1,539 paid 1983: $1,792 paid 1986: $18,005 paid 1987: $500 paid 1989: $3,069 paid 1990: $4,958 paid 1994: $0 paid 1997: $283 paid 1998: $2,760 paid 2000: $6,528 paid 2002: $23,915 paid 2010: $0 paid 2013: $0 paid 2016: $200,850 paid 2018: $5,712 paid 2019: $2,728 paid 2023: $58,024 paid 2016 · $201K 1979 2023
$337K
total paid
$7,321
average claim
$168K
largest single claim
50%
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 Chippewa, WI and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Chippewa 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.