Is Foard County, TX in a flood zone?
FEMA's National Risk Index puts Foard County's flood hazard at the 1th 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 5 years. This describes the county, not any one street — FEMA only publishes exact parcel zones through a live map service.
Who actually carries the flood insurance FEMA requires
Foard 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 Foard County, not just the ones FEMA mandates, 0.2% carry an NFIP policy — most flood damage nationally happens outside the mapped high-risk zone, so that broader number matters too.
How Foard County compares nationally
Foard County sits at rank 3117 of 3144 counties on FEMA's flood hazard scale (1 is worst) and rank 3107 of 3144 by population (1 is biggest). Foard County, Texas is home to about 1,053 people across 704.395 square miles of land.
Checking a specific address in Foard County
Across all of Foard County's 669 residential structures, 1 carry an NFIP policy today — a county-wide count that still can't tell you one address's own mapped zone.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly which FEMA and Census tables feed Foard County's numbers. See the data quality guide for why Foard County, like hundreds of other counties, doesn't get a clean compliance percentage.