Sawyer County, WI flood risk explained
Flood hazard in Sawyer County sits at the 62.1th national percentile, 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 once every 3 years. County-wide, not parcel-specific: FEMA's real flood-zone map is queried live, never shipped as a download.
Mandatory flood insurance compliance in Sawyer County
FEMA hasn't published a residential structure count for Sawyer County'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, 0.4% of all residential structures in Sawyer County carry flood coverage voluntarily or otherwise — relevant because most NFIP claims nationally come from outside the mapped SFHA.
Sawyer County against the rest of the country
Among the 3144 US counties FEMA scores for flood hazard, Sawyer County ranks 1245 — 1 being the highest hazard nationally — and 1886 by population among all 3144 counties covered here, where 1 is the largest. About 18,835 people live in Sawyer County, Wisconsin, spread over 1,257.604 square miles.
Checking a specific address in Sawyer County
Across all of Sawyer County's 12,562 residential structures, 51 carry an NFIP policy today — a county-wide count that still can't tell you one address's own mapped zone.
Where Sawyer County's figures come from
Every figure on this page traces to a named FEMA dataset, documented in the methodology guide. Sawyer County'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.