Dickey County, ND: flood risk, in FEMA's own numbers
On FEMA's National Risk Index, Dickey County scores at the 6.5th percentile for flood hazard, rated "Very Low" — among the lowest flood hazard in the country. 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. 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 Dickey 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 Dickey County carry flood coverage voluntarily or otherwise — relevant because most NFIP claims nationally come from outside the mapped SFHA.
Dickey County against the rest of the country
Among the 3144 US counties FEMA scores for flood hazard, Dickey County ranks 2951 — 1 being the highest hazard nationally — and 2823 by population among all 3144 counties covered here, where 1 is the largest. Dickey County, North Dakota is home to about 4,930 people across 1,131.493 square miles of land.
Your street may differ from Dickey County's average
Across all of Dickey County's 2,654 residential structures, 0 carry an NFIP policy today — a county-wide count that still can't tell you one address's own mapped zone.
Where Dickey County's figures come from
Every figure on this page traces to a named FEMA dataset, documented in the methodology guide. Dickey 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.