How much flood risk does Cherry County actually carry?
Cherry County lands at the 15th 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 3 years. That's a county-wide figure, not a per-address one — FEMA's parcel maps are a live lookup, not a bulk file.
Who actually carries the flood insurance FEMA requires
Cherry 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 Cherry County, not just the ones FEMA mandates, 0% carry an NFIP policy — most flood damage nationally happens outside the mapped high-risk zone, so that broader number matters too.
Where Cherry County ranks
Cherry County sits at rank 2704 of 3144 counties on FEMA's flood hazard scale (1 is worst) and rank 2773 of 3144 by population (1 is biggest). Cherry County, Nebraska is home to about 5,558 people across 5,960.099 square miles of land.
Checking a specific address in Cherry County
0 of Cherry County's 4,894 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 Cherry County's numbers. See the data quality guide for why Cherry County, like hundreds of other counties, doesn't get a clean compliance percentage.