El Paso County, TX flood risk explained
Flood hazard in El Paso County sits at the 96.8th national percentile, well above 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 4 times a year. County-wide, not parcel-specific: FEMA's real flood-zone map is queried live, never shipped as a download.
Mandatory flood insurance compliance in El Paso County
FEMA hasn't published a residential structure count for El Paso 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, 1.1% of all residential structures in El Paso County carry flood coverage voluntarily or otherwise — relevant because most NFIP claims nationally come from outside the mapped SFHA.
Where El Paso County ranks
Among the 3144 US counties FEMA scores for flood hazard, El Paso County ranks 110 — 1 being the highest hazard nationally — and 71 by population among all 3144 counties covered here, where 1 is the largest. El Paso County, Texas is home to about 875,784 people across 1,013.525 square miles of land.
Your street may differ from El Paso County's average
2,695 of El Paso County's 244,639 residential structures carry flood coverage of some kind, per FEMA's latest count — useful context, not a substitute for checking one parcel.
Where El Paso County's figures come from
Every figure on this page traces to a named FEMA dataset, documented in the methodology guide. El Paso 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.