Is Dodge County, MN in a flood zone?
FEMA's National Risk Index puts Dodge County's flood hazard at the 23.9th percentile nationally — 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 1 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
Dodge 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 Dodge County, not just the ones FEMA mandates, 0.3% carry an NFIP policy — most flood damage nationally happens outside the mapped high-risk zone, so that broader number matters too.
Dodge County against the rest of the country
Dodge County sits at rank 2434 of 3144 counties on FEMA's flood hazard scale (1 is worst) and rank 1760 of 3144 by population (1 is biggest). Dodge County, Minnesota covers 439.396 square miles and counts roughly 21,242 residents.
Checking a specific address in Dodge County
FEMA counts 9,746 residential structures in Dodge County overall, 30 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 Dodge County's numbers. See the data quality guide for why Dodge County, like hundreds of other counties, doesn't get a clean compliance percentage.