How much flood risk does Lane County actually carry?
Lane County lands at the 2.4th 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 4 years. That's a county-wide figure, not a per-address one — FEMA's parcel maps are a live lookup, not a bulk file.
Mandatory flood insurance compliance in Lane County
Lane 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 Lane 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 Lane County ranks
Lane County sits at rank 3074 of 3144 counties on FEMA's flood hazard scale (1 is worst) and rank 3080 of 3144 by population (1 is biggest). Lane County, Kansas is home to about 1,482 people across 717.409 square miles of land.
What to do next if you own or are buying in Lane County
0 of Lane County's 1,334 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 Lane County's numbers. See the data quality guide for why Lane County, like hundreds of other counties, doesn't get a clean compliance percentage.