Is Keya Paha County, NE in a flood zone?
FEMA's National Risk Index puts Keya Paha County's flood hazard at the 2.2th 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 4 years. County-wide, not parcel-specific: FEMA's real flood-zone map is queried live, never shipped as a download.
Keya Paha County's flood-insurance compliance gap
Keya Paha 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 Keya Paha County, not just the ones FEMA mandates, 0% carry an NFIP policy — most flood damage nationally happens outside the mapped high-risk zone, so that broader number matters too.
Where Keya Paha County ranks
Keya Paha County sits at rank 3080 of 3144 counties on FEMA's flood hazard scale (1 is worst) and rank 3118 of 3144 by population (1 is biggest). About 819 people live in Keya Paha County, Nebraska, spread over 772.876 square miles.
What to do next if you own or are buying in Keya Paha County
Across all of Keya Paha County's 1,001 residential structures, 0 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 Keya Paha County's numbers. See the data quality guide for why Keya Paha County, like hundreds of other counties, doesn't get a clean compliance percentage.