Is Queens County, NY in a flood zone?
FEMA's National Risk Index puts Queens County's flood hazard at the 99.3th percentile nationally — among the highest flood hazard in the country — split between inland river flooding (about 3.3 times a year) and coastal storm surge (about 4.4 times a year). County-wide, not parcel-specific: FEMA's real flood-zone map is queried live, never shipped as a download.
Mandatory flood insurance compliance in Queens County
Queens 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 Queens County, not just the ones FEMA mandates, 3.7% carry an NFIP policy — most flood damage nationally happens outside the mapped high-risk zone, so that broader number matters too.
How Queens County compares nationally
Queens County sits at rank 25 of 3144 counties on FEMA's flood hazard scale (1 is worst) and rank 13 of 3144 by population (1 is biggest). Queens County, New York covers 108.724 square miles and counts roughly 2,316,841 residents.
Your street may differ from Queens County's average
Across all of Queens County's 322,316 residential structures, 11,977 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 Queens County's numbers. See the data quality guide for why Queens County, like hundreds of other counties, doesn't get a clean compliance percentage.