Is Shackelford County, TX in a flood zone?
FEMA's National Risk Index puts Shackelford County's flood hazard at the 3.2th percentile nationally — among the lowest flood hazard in the country — 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 Shackelford County
Shackelford 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 Shackelford County, not just the ones FEMA mandates, 1% carry an NFIP policy — most flood damage nationally happens outside the mapped high-risk zone, so that broader number matters too.
Where Shackelford County ranks
Shackelford County sits at rank 3050 of 3144 counties on FEMA's flood hazard scale (1 is worst) and rank 2947 of 3144 by population (1 is biggest). About 3,169 people live in Shackelford County, Texas, spread over 914.286 square miles.
What to do next if you own or are buying in Shackelford County
Across all of Shackelford County's 1,573 residential structures, 15 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 Shackelford County's numbers. See the data quality guide for why Shackelford County, like hundreds of other counties, doesn't get a clean compliance percentage.