Shawano County, WI flood risk explained
Flood hazard in Shawano County sits at the 59.7th 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 4 years. County-wide, not parcel-specific: FEMA's real flood-zone map is queried live, never shipped as a download.
Who actually carries the flood insurance FEMA requires
FEMA hasn't published a residential structure count for Shawano 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, 0.2% of all residential structures in Shawano County carry flood coverage voluntarily or otherwise — relevant because most NFIP claims nationally come from outside the mapped SFHA.
Where Shawano County ranks
Among the 3144 US counties FEMA scores for flood hazard, Shawano County ranks 1327 — 1 being the highest hazard nationally — and 1167 by population among all 3144 counties covered here, where 1 is the largest. Shawano County, Wisconsin covers 893.225 square miles and counts roughly 41,299 residents.
Checking a specific address in Shawano County
Across all of Shawano County's 17,613 residential structures, 41 carry an NFIP policy today — a county-wide count that still can't tell you one address's own mapped zone.
Where Shawano County's figures come from
Every figure on this page traces to a named FEMA dataset, documented in the methodology guide. Shawano 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.