How much flood risk does Cedar County actually carry?
Cedar County lands at the 24.9th 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.
Cedar County's flood-insurance compliance gap
Cedar 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 Cedar County, not just the ones FEMA mandates, 0.4% carry an NFIP policy — most flood damage nationally happens outside the mapped high-risk zone, so that broader number matters too.
How Cedar County compares nationally
Cedar County sits at rank 2406 of 3144 counties on FEMA's flood hazard scale (1 is worst) and rank 2556 of 3144 by population (1 is biggest). About 8,262 people live in Cedar County, Nebraska, spread over 740.189 square miles.
Your street may differ from Cedar County's average
27 of Cedar County's 7,438 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 Cedar County's numbers. See the data quality guide for why Cedar County, like hundreds of other counties, doesn't get a clean compliance percentage.