Pointe Coupee Parish, LA: flood risk, in FEMA's own numbers
On FEMA's National Risk Index, Pointe Coupee Parish scores at the 26.3th percentile for flood hazard, rated "Very Low" — among the lowest flood hazard in the country. The hazard here is 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.
Pointe Coupee Parish's flood-insurance compliance gap
FEMA hasn't published a residential structure count for Pointe Coupee Parish'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, 11.3% of all residential structures in Pointe Coupee Parish carry flood coverage voluntarily or otherwise — relevant because most NFIP claims nationally come from outside the mapped SFHA.
Pointe Coupee Parish against the rest of the country
Among the 3144 US counties FEMA scores for flood hazard, Pointe Coupee Parish ranks 2363 — 1 being the highest hazard nationally — and 1836 by population among all 3144 counties covered here, where 1 is the largest. Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana covers 555.495 square miles and counts roughly 19,845 residents.
Your street may differ from Pointe Coupee Parish's average
Across all of Pointe Coupee Parish's 10,928 residential structures, 1,229 carry an NFIP policy today — a county-wide count that still can't tell you one address's own mapped zone.
Where Pointe Coupee Parish's figures come from
Every figure on this page traces to a named FEMA dataset, documented in the methodology guide. Pointe Coupee Parish'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.