Is Daviess County, IN in a flood zone?
FEMA's National Risk Index puts Daviess County's flood hazard at the 62.2th percentile nationally — below the national norm for flood hazard — driven by inland rivers and flash flooding rather than the coast — FEMA's model puts a flood event here at about 3.5 times a year. County-wide, not parcel-specific: FEMA's real flood-zone map is queried live, never shipped as a download.
Daviess County's flood-insurance compliance gap
Daviess 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 Daviess County, not just the ones FEMA mandates, 0.1% carry an NFIP policy — most flood damage nationally happens outside the mapped high-risk zone, so that broader number matters too.
How Daviess County compares nationally
Daviess County sits at rank 1241 of 3144 counties on FEMA's flood hazard scale (1 is worst) and rank 1334 of 3144 by population (1 is biggest). About 34,097 people live in Daviess County, Indiana, spread over 429.514 square miles.
Your street may differ from Daviess County's average
FEMA counts 14,279 residential structures in Daviess County overall, 15 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 Daviess County's numbers. See the data quality guide for why Daviess County, like hundreds of other counties, doesn't get a clean compliance percentage.