Lipscomb County, TX flood risk explained
Flood hazard in Lipscomb County sits at the 4.4th national percentile, 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 2 years. That's a county-wide figure, not a per-address one — FEMA's parcel maps are a live lookup, not a bulk file.
Who actually carries the flood insurance FEMA requires
FEMA hasn't published a residential structure count for Lipscomb 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, 0.9% of all residential structures in Lipscomb County carry flood coverage voluntarily or otherwise — relevant because most NFIP claims nationally come from outside the mapped SFHA.
Where Lipscomb County ranks
Among the 3144 US counties FEMA scores for flood hazard, Lipscomb County ranks 3012 — 1 being the highest hazard nationally — and 2964 by population among all 3144 counties covered here, where 1 is the largest. Lipscomb County, Texas covers 932.214 square miles and counts roughly 2,880 residents.
Checking a specific address in Lipscomb County
Across all of Lipscomb County's 1,284 residential structures, 12 carry an NFIP policy today — a county-wide count that still can't tell you one address's own mapped zone.
Where Lipscomb County's figures come from
Every figure on this page traces to a named FEMA dataset, documented in the methodology guide. Lipscomb 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.