How much flood risk does Huerfano County actually carry?
Huerfano County lands at the 47.9th percentile of FEMA's National Risk Index for flooding, "Relatively Low" territory — below the national norm for flood hazard — with the hazard driven by inland rivers and flash flooding rather than the coast — FEMA's model puts a flood event here at about 1.5 times a year. 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
Huerfano 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 Huerfano County, not just the ones FEMA mandates, 0.9% carry an NFIP policy — most flood damage nationally happens outside the mapped high-risk zone, so that broader number matters too.
Where Huerfano County ranks
Huerfano County sits at rank 1702 of 3144 counties on FEMA's flood hazard scale (1 is worst) and rank 2661 of 3144 by population (1 is biggest). Huerfano County, Colorado is home to about 6,988 people across 1,591.033 square miles of land.
Your street may differ from Huerfano County's average
Across all of Huerfano County's 3,932 residential structures, 34 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 Huerfano County's numbers. See the data quality guide for why Huerfano County, like hundreds of other counties, doesn't get a clean compliance percentage.