How much flood risk does De Baca County actually carry?
De Baca County lands at the 11.5th 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. County-wide, not parcel-specific: FEMA's real flood-zone map is queried live, never shipped as a download.
De Baca County's flood-insurance compliance gap
De Baca 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 De Baca 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.
Where De Baca County ranks
De Baca County sits at rank 2803 of 3144 counties on FEMA's flood hazard scale (1 is worst) and rank 3071 of 3144 by population (1 is biggest). About 1,657 people live in De Baca County, New Mexico, spread over 2,323.107 square miles.
Your street may differ from De Baca County's average
FEMA counts 1,060 residential structures in De Baca County overall, 1 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 De Baca County's numbers. See the data quality guide for why De Baca County, like hundreds of other counties, doesn't get a clean compliance percentage.