Is Bryan County, GA in a flood zone?
FEMA's National Risk Index puts Bryan County's flood hazard at the 63.8th percentile nationally — a middling flood hazard by national standards — driven by coastal storm surge rather than inland rivers — FEMA's model puts a surge event here at about 3.6 times a year. County-wide, not parcel-specific: FEMA's real flood-zone map is queried live, never shipped as a download.
Bryan County's flood-insurance compliance gap
Homes with a federally backed mortgage inside Bryan County's mapped high-risk flood zone (the Special Flood Hazard Area, or SFHA) are legally required to carry an NFIP flood policy. In practice, 92.9% of them do — 1,339 active policies against 1,441 structures FEMA counts in that zone, one of the higher compliance rates FEMA reports. Across all residential structures in Bryan County, not just the ones FEMA mandates, 20.9% carry an NFIP policy — most flood damage nationally happens outside the mapped high-risk zone, so that broader number matters too.
Bryan County against the rest of the country
Bryan County sits at rank 1189 of 3144 counties on FEMA's flood hazard scale (1 is worst) and rank 998 of 3144 by population (1 is biggest). About 51,105 people live in Bryan County, Georgia, spread over 437.564 square miles.
Your street may differ from Bryan County's average
FEMA counts 14,675 residential structures in Bryan County overall, 3,060 of them carrying some form of NFIP coverage — but a lender or insurer cares about one parcel, not that county total.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly which FEMA and Census tables feed Bryan County's numbers. Because storm surge plays a real role here, the guide to coastal vs. inland flood hazard is worth reading alongside this page.