Is Meade County, KS in a flood zone?
FEMA's National Risk Index puts Meade County's flood hazard at the 2.9th 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 2 years. County-wide, not parcel-specific: FEMA's real flood-zone map is queried live, never shipped as a download.
Mandatory flood insurance compliance in Meade County
Meade 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 Meade 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.
Meade County against the rest of the country
Meade County sits at rank 3058 of 3144 counties on FEMA's flood hazard scale (1 is worst) and rank 2892 of 3144 by population (1 is biggest). About 3,892 people live in Meade County, Kansas, spread over 978.083 square miles.
Checking a specific address in Meade County
FEMA counts 2,371 residential structures in Meade County overall, 0 of them carrying some form of NFIP coverage — but a lender or insurer cares about one parcel, not that county total.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly which FEMA and Census tables feed Meade County's numbers. See the data quality guide for why Meade County, like hundreds of other counties, doesn't get a clean compliance percentage.