How much flood risk does Barber County actually carry?
Barber County lands at the 10.6th percentile of FEMA's National Risk Index for flooding, "Very Low" territory — among the lowest flood hazard in the country — with the hazard driven by inland rivers and flash flooding rather than the coast — FEMA's model puts a flood event here at about once every 2 years. This describes the county, not any one street — FEMA only publishes exact parcel zones through a live map service.
Barber County's flood-insurance compliance gap
Barber 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 Barber County, not just the ones FEMA mandates, 0.1% carry an NFIP policy — most flood damage nationally happens outside the mapped high-risk zone, so that broader number matters too.
How Barber County compares nationally
Barber County sits at rank 2831 of 3144 counties on FEMA's flood hazard scale (1 is worst) and rank 2878 of 3144 by population (1 is biggest). Barber County, Kansas covers 1,134.075 square miles and counts roughly 4,070 residents.
Your street may differ from Barber County's average
2 of Barber County's 3,283 residential structures carry flood coverage of some kind, per FEMA's latest count — useful context, not a substitute for checking one parcel.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly which FEMA and Census tables feed Barber County's numbers. See the data quality guide for why Barber County, like hundreds of other counties, doesn't get a clean compliance percentage.