Briscoe County, TX flood risk explained
Flood hazard in Briscoe County sits at the 0.4th 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 2 years. County-wide, not parcel-specific: FEMA's real flood-zone map is queried live, never shipped as a download.
Who actually carries the flood insurance FEMA requires
FEMA hasn't published a residential structure count for Briscoe 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% of all residential structures in Briscoe County carry flood coverage voluntarily or otherwise — relevant because most NFIP claims nationally come from outside the mapped SFHA.
How Briscoe County compares nationally
Among the 3144 US counties FEMA scores for flood hazard, Briscoe County ranks 3133 — 1 being the highest hazard nationally — and 3079 by population among all 3144 counties covered here, where 1 is the largest. About 1,494 people live in Briscoe County, Texas, spread over 900.001 square miles.
Your street may differ from Briscoe County's average
Across all of Briscoe County's 916 residential structures, 0 carry an NFIP policy today — a county-wide count that still can't tell you one address's own mapped zone.
Where Briscoe County's figures come from
Every figure on this page traces to a named FEMA dataset, documented in the methodology guide. Briscoe 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.