Lowest counties for flood risk in the United States
Top 25 of 3144 counties with data.
Ranked by flood risk (FEMA National Risk Index, FEMA NRI v1.20), lowest first.
| Rank | County | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aleutians West | 0.0 |
| 2 | Kusilvak | 0.0 |
| 3 | Aleutians East | 0.0 |
| 4 | Bristol Bay | 0.0 |
| 5 | Lake and Peninsula | 0.1 |
| 6 | Loving | 0.8 |
| 7 | Skagway | 0.8 |
| 8 | Yakutat | 1.6 |
| 9 | McPherson | 2.0 |
| 10 | Kenedy | 3.0 |
| 11 | Wrangell | 3.6 |
| 12 | Kent | 4.9 |
| 13 | Roberts | 5.3 |
| 14 | Logan | 6.2 |
| 15 | King | 6.6 |
| 16 | North Slope | 6.6 |
| 17 | Briscoe | 6.8 |
| 18 | Echols | 6.9 |
| 19 | Arthur | 7.5 |
| 20 | Tillman | 7.6 |
| 21 | Davis | 7.9 |
| 22 | Tooele | 7.9 |
| 23 | Prince of Wales-Hyder | 8.8 |
| 24 | Borden | 9.5 |
| 25 | Lynn | 9.5 |
How this ranking works
This page ranks every US county by flood risk, sorted so the lowest places appear first. Click any county to see its housing, schools, crime, and demographics in detail.
For flood risk, a lower value is generally more favorable, so the top of the list is the lowest. Want to weigh flood risk against schools, taxes, commute, and more at once? Use the live map to build a custom match.
Data comes from public sources. Source attribution and the exact data vintage are shown above and on the full map of flood risk.
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Counties With the Lowest Flood Risk, state by state
The same ranking, scoped to a single state.
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- Delaware
- District of Columbia
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- Kentucky
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- New Hampshire
- New Jersey
- New Mexico
- New York
- North Carolina
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- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Oregon
- Pennsylvania
- Rhode Island
- South Carolina
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Utah
- Vermont
- Virginia
- Washington
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming