Is Sabine Parish, LA in a flood zone?
FEMA's National Risk Index puts Sabine Parish's flood hazard at the 66.5th percentile nationally — below the national norm for flood hazard — driven by inland rivers and flash flooding rather than the coast — FEMA's model puts a flood event here at about 1 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.
Sabine Parish's flood-insurance compliance gap
Sabine Parish 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 Parish, not just the ones FEMA mandates, 0.8% carry an NFIP policy — most flood damage nationally happens outside the mapped high-risk zone, so that broader number matters too.
Where Sabine Parish ranks
Sabine Parish sits at rank 1101 of 3144 counties on FEMA's flood hazard scale (1 is worst) and rank 1734 of 3144 by population (1 is biggest). Sabine Parish, Louisiana covers 866.631 square miles and counts roughly 21,746 residents.
Checking a specific address in Sabine Parish
96 of Sabine Parish's 12,830 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 Sabine Parish's numbers. See the data quality guide for why Sabine Parish, like hundreds of other counties, doesn't get a clean compliance percentage.