How much flood risk does Pushmataha County actually carry?
Pushmataha County lands at the 36.1th percentile of FEMA's National Risk Index for flooding, "Relatively Low" territory — below the national norm for flood hazard — with the hazard driven by inland rivers and flash flooding rather than the coast — FEMA's model puts a flood event here at about 1.6 times a year. This describes the county, not any one street — FEMA only publishes exact parcel zones through a live map service.
Pushmataha County's flood-insurance compliance gap
Pushmataha 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 Pushmataha County, not just the ones FEMA mandates, 0.3% carry an NFIP policy — most flood damage nationally happens outside the mapped high-risk zone, so that broader number matters too.
Pushmataha County against the rest of the country
Pushmataha County sits at rank 2073 of 3144 counties on FEMA's flood hazard scale (1 is worst) and rank 2358 of 3144 by population (1 is biggest). Pushmataha County, Oklahoma covers 1,395.589 square miles and counts roughly 10,800 residents.
What to do next if you own or are buying in Pushmataha County
FEMA counts 5,657 residential structures in Pushmataha County overall, 14 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 Pushmataha County's numbers. See the data quality guide for why Pushmataha County, like hundreds of other counties, doesn't get a clean compliance percentage.