How much flood risk does Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region actually carry?
Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region lands at the 75.2th percentile of FEMA's National Risk Index for flooding, "Relatively Moderate" territory — a middling flood hazard by national standards — with the hazard driven by inland rivers and flash flooding rather than the coast — FEMA's model puts a flood event here at about 2.3 times a year. County-wide, not parcel-specific: FEMA's real flood-zone map is queried live, never shipped as a download.
Who actually carries the flood insurance FEMA requires
The raw NFIP numbers for Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region would imply over 100% of mandated homes carry a policy, which just means FEMA's structure-count denominator for this county is wrong, not that compliance is unusually good. This is flagged rather than clipped to look normal — details in the data quality guide. Across all residential structures in Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, not just the ones FEMA mandates, 0.2% carry an NFIP policy — most flood damage nationally happens outside the mapped high-risk zone, so that broader number matters too.
Where Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region ranks
Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region sits at rank 814 of 3144 counties on FEMA's flood hazard scale (1 is worst) and rank 635 of 3144 by population (1 is biggest). About 97,701 people live in Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut, spread over 553.9 square miles.
Your street may differ from Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region's average
FEMA counts 34,172 residential structures in Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region overall, 81 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 Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region's numbers. See the data quality guide for why Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, like hundreds of other counties, doesn't get a clean compliance percentage.