Ashland County, WI flood risk explained
Flood hazard in Ashland County sits at the 28.2th national percentile, among the lowest flood hazard in the country; driven by inland rivers and flash flooding rather than the coast — FEMA's model puts a flood event here at about once every 1 years. That's a county-wide figure, not a per-address one — FEMA's parcel maps are a live lookup, not a bulk file.
Ashland County's flood-insurance compliance gap
FEMA hasn't published a residential structure count for Ashland County's mapped flood zone, so a reliable mandatory-compliance percentage can't be computed here — see the data quality guide for why this gap exists for roughly a quarter of US counties. Looking beyond the mandated zone, 0.3% of all residential structures in Ashland County carry flood coverage voluntarily or otherwise — relevant because most NFIP claims nationally come from outside the mapped SFHA.
Ashland County against the rest of the country
Among the 3144 US counties FEMA scores for flood hazard, Ashland County ranks 2309 — 1 being the highest hazard nationally — and 2022 by population among all 3144 counties covered here, where 1 is the largest. Ashland County, Wisconsin is home to about 16,196 people across 1,044.97 square miles of land.
Your street may differ from Ashland County's average
FEMA counts 8,099 residential structures in Ashland County overall, 20 of them carrying some form of NFIP coverage — but a lender or insurer cares about one parcel, not that county total.
Where Ashland County's figures come from
Every figure on this page traces to a named FEMA dataset, documented in the methodology guide. Ashland County's compliance figure is one of the ones affected by FEMA's incomplete denominator data — the data quality guide explains what that means and how many counties it touches.