Kittitas County, WA: flood risk, in FEMA's own numbers
On FEMA's National Risk Index, Kittitas County scores at the 74.8th percentile for flood hazard, rated "Relatively Moderate" — a middling flood hazard by national standards. The hazard here is driven by inland rivers and flash flooding rather than the coast — FEMA's model puts a flood event here at about once every 2 years. County-wide, not parcel-specific: FEMA's real flood-zone map is queried live, never shipped as a download.
Kittitas County's flood-insurance compliance gap
FEMA hasn't published a residential structure count for Kittitas 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, 2.3% of all residential structures in Kittitas County carry flood coverage voluntarily or otherwise — relevant because most NFIP claims nationally come from outside the mapped SFHA.
How Kittitas County compares nationally
Among the 3144 US counties FEMA scores for flood hazard, Kittitas County ranks 828 — 1 being the highest hazard nationally — and 1033 by population among all 3144 counties covered here, where 1 is the largest. Kittitas County, Washington is home to about 48,172 people across 2,297.291 square miles of land.
Checking a specific address in Kittitas County
FEMA counts 21,529 residential structures in Kittitas County overall, 491 of them carrying some form of NFIP coverage — but a lender or insurer cares about one parcel, not that county total.
Where Kittitas County's figures come from
Every figure on this page traces to a named FEMA dataset, documented in the methodology guide. Kittitas 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.