East Carroll Parish, LA flood risk explained
Flood hazard in East Carroll Parish sits at the 8.7th national percentile, 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.
Mandatory flood insurance compliance in East Carroll Parish
FEMA hasn't published a residential structure count for East Carroll 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, 5.8% of all residential structures in East Carroll Parish carry flood coverage voluntarily or otherwise — relevant because most NFIP claims nationally come from outside the mapped SFHA.
East Carroll Parish against the rest of the country
Among the 3144 US counties FEMA scores for flood hazard, East Carroll Parish ranks 2885 — 1 being the highest hazard nationally — and 2665 by population among all 3144 counties covered here, where 1 is the largest. East Carroll Parish, Louisiana covers 421.231 square miles and counts roughly 6,892 residents.
What to do next if you own or are buying in East Carroll Parish
Across all of East Carroll Parish's 2,401 residential structures, 138 carry an NFIP policy today — a county-wide count that still can't tell you one address's own mapped zone.
Where East Carroll Parish's figures come from
Every figure on this page traces to a named FEMA dataset, documented in the methodology guide. East Carroll 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.