Is Bailey County, TX in a flood zone?
FEMA's National Risk Index puts Bailey County's flood hazard at the 13.6th percentile nationally — 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.
Bailey County's flood-insurance compliance gap
Bailey County is one of the counties where FEMA's own denominator for mandated flood-zone structures is missing, so no compliance rate is shown rather than a guessed one — the data quality guide covers how common this is. Across all residential structures in Bailey County, not just the ones FEMA mandates, 0.5% carry an NFIP policy — most flood damage nationally happens outside the mapped high-risk zone, so that broader number matters too.
How Bailey County compares nationally
Bailey County sits at rank 2743 of 3144 counties on FEMA's flood hazard scale (1 is worst) and rank 2658 of 3144 by population (1 is biggest). Bailey County, Texas is home to about 7,031 people across 826.972 square miles of land.
Checking a specific address in Bailey County
Across all of Bailey County's 2,285 residential structures, 12 carry an NFIP policy today — a county-wide count that still can't tell you one address's own mapped zone.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly which FEMA and Census tables feed Bailey County's numbers. See the data quality guide for why Bailey County, like hundreds of other counties, doesn't get a clean compliance percentage.