How much flood risk does Pecos County actually carry?
Pecos County lands at the 23.5th 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 2.9 times a year. That's a county-wide figure, not a per-address one — FEMA's parcel maps are a live lookup, not a bulk file.
Pecos County's flood-insurance compliance gap
Pecos 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 Pecos County, 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.
How Pecos County compares nationally
Pecos County sits at rank 2445 of 3144 counties on FEMA's flood hazard scale (1 is worst) and rank 2108 of 3144 by population (1 is biggest). Pecos County, Texas covers 4,763.835 square miles and counts roughly 14,712 residents.
Your street may differ from Pecos County's average
9 of Pecos County's 5,460 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 Pecos County's numbers. See the data quality guide for why Pecos County, like hundreds of other counties, doesn't get a clean compliance percentage.