Claiborne Parish, LA: flood risk, in FEMA's own numbers
On FEMA's National Risk Index, Claiborne Parish scores at the 35.2th percentile for flood hazard, rated "Relatively Low" — below the national norm for flood hazard. The hazard here is 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. 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
FEMA hasn't published a residential structure count for Claiborne Parish'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, 1.3% of all residential structures in Claiborne Parish carry flood coverage voluntarily or otherwise — relevant because most NFIP claims nationally come from outside the mapped SFHA.
How Claiborne Parish compares nationally
Among the 3144 US counties FEMA scores for flood hazard, Claiborne Parish ranks 2099 — 1 being the highest hazard nationally — and 2185 by population among all 3144 counties covered here, where 1 is the largest. About 13,537 people live in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana, spread over 754.794 square miles.
Your street may differ from Claiborne Parish's average
Across all of Claiborne Parish's 6,389 residential structures, 81 carry an NFIP policy today — a county-wide count that still can't tell you one address's own mapped zone.
Where Claiborne Parish's figures come from
Every figure on this page traces to a named FEMA dataset, documented in the methodology guide. Claiborne Parish'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.