Box Butte County, NE flood risk explained
Flood hazard in Box Butte County sits at the 5.9th 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 9 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 Box Butte 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, 0.1% of all residential structures in Box Butte County carry flood coverage voluntarily or otherwise — relevant because most NFIP claims nationally come from outside the mapped SFHA.
How Box Butte County compares nationally
Among the 3144 US counties FEMA scores for flood hazard, Box Butte County ranks 2966 — 1 being the highest hazard nationally — and 2364 by population among all 3144 counties covered here, where 1 is the largest. About 10,703 people live in Box Butte County, Nebraska, spread over 1,075.233 square miles.
Your street may differ from Box Butte County's average
5 of Box Butte County's 5,687 residential structures carry flood coverage of some kind, per FEMA's latest count — useful context, not a substitute for checking one parcel.
Where Box Butte County's figures come from
Every figure on this page traces to a named FEMA dataset, documented in the methodology guide. Box Butte 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.