How much flood risk does Sabine County actually carry?
Sabine County lands at the 32.9th 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 once every 1 years. That's a county-wide figure, not a per-address one — FEMA's parcel maps are a live lookup, not a bulk file.
Mandatory flood insurance compliance in Sabine County
Sabine 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 Sabine County, not just the ones FEMA mandates, 0.1% carry an NFIP policy — most flood damage nationally happens outside the mapped high-risk zone, so that broader number matters too.
Sabine County against the rest of the country
Sabine County sits at rank 2170 of 3144 counties on FEMA's flood hazard scale (1 is worst) and rank 2402 of 3144 by population (1 is biggest). About 10,058 people live in Sabine County, Texas, spread over 491.71 square miles.
Checking a specific address in Sabine County
Across all of Sabine County's 7,040 residential structures, 8 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 Sabine County's numbers. See the data quality guide for why Sabine County, like hundreds of other counties, doesn't get a clean compliance percentage.