How much flood risk does Hood River County actually carry?
Hood River County lands at the 30.4th percentile of FEMA's National Risk Index for flooding, "Very Low" territory — among the lowest flood hazard in the country — with the hazard driven by inland rivers and flash flooding rather than the coast — FEMA's model puts a flood event here at about once every 7 years. This describes the county, not any one street — FEMA only publishes exact parcel zones through a live map service.
Hood River County's flood-insurance compliance gap
Hood River 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 Hood River 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.
Where Hood River County ranks
Hood River County sits at rank 2245 of 3144 counties on FEMA's flood hazard scale (1 is worst) and rank 1657 of 3144 by population (1 is biggest). Hood River County, Oregon is home to about 23,764 people across 522.194 square miles of land.
Your street may differ from Hood River County's average
23 of Hood River County's 9,418 residential structures carry flood coverage of some kind, per FEMA's latest count — useful context, not a substitute for checking one parcel.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly which FEMA and Census tables feed Hood River County's numbers. See the data quality guide for why Hood River County, like hundreds of other counties, doesn't get a clean compliance percentage.