Childress County, TX flood risk explained
Flood hazard in Childress County sits at the 3.9th 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 3 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 Childress 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 Childress County carry flood coverage voluntarily or otherwise — relevant because most NFIP claims nationally come from outside the mapped SFHA.
Childress County against the rest of the country
Among the 3144 US counties FEMA scores for flood hazard, Childress County ranks 3026 — 1 being the highest hazard nationally — and 2682 by population among all 3144 counties covered here, where 1 is the largest. Childress County, Texas covers 696.511 square miles and counts roughly 6,679 residents.
Checking a specific address in Childress County
Across all of Childress County's 2,739 residential structures, 1 carry an NFIP policy today — a county-wide count that still can't tell you one address's own mapped zone.
Where Childress County's figures come from
Every figure on this page traces to a named FEMA dataset, documented in the methodology guide. Childress 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.