Bingham County, ID flood risk explained
Flood hazard in Bingham County sits at the 58.8th national percentile, below the national norm for flood 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.
Who actually carries the flood insurance FEMA requires
FEMA hasn't published a residential structure count for Bingham 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, 0.5% of all residential structures in Bingham County carry flood coverage voluntarily or otherwise — relevant because most NFIP claims nationally come from outside the mapped SFHA.
Bingham County against the rest of the country
Among the 3144 US counties FEMA scores for flood hazard, Bingham County ranks 1354 — 1 being the highest hazard nationally — and 1000 by population among all 3144 counties covered here, where 1 is the largest. Bingham County, Idaho covers 2,093.732 square miles and counts roughly 50,889 residents.
Your street may differ from Bingham County's average
Across all of Bingham County's 16,729 residential structures, 88 carry an NFIP policy today — a county-wide count that still can't tell you one address's own mapped zone.
Where Bingham County's figures come from
Every figure on this page traces to a named FEMA dataset, documented in the methodology guide. Bingham 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.