Is Mineral County, CO in a flood zone?
FEMA's National Risk Index puts Mineral County's flood hazard at the 7.5th 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 14 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 Mineral County
Mineral 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 Mineral 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.
How Mineral County compares nationally
Mineral County sits at rank 2923 of 3144 counties on FEMA's flood hazard scale (1 is worst) and rank 3110 of 3144 by population (1 is biggest). Mineral County, Colorado is home to about 933 people across 875.76 square miles of land.
Your street may differ from Mineral County's average
Across all of Mineral County's 1,426 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 Mineral County's numbers. See the data quality guide for why Mineral County, like hundreds of other counties, doesn't get a clean compliance percentage.