Van Wert County, OH: flood risk, in FEMA's own numbers
On FEMA's National Risk Index, Van Wert County scores at the 33.7th percentile for flood hazard, rated "Very Low" — among the lowest flood hazard in the country. The hazard here is driven by inland rivers and flash flooding rather than the coast — FEMA's model puts a flood event here at about once every 2 years. That's a county-wide figure, not a per-address one — FEMA's parcel maps are a live lookup, not a bulk file.
Who actually carries the flood insurance FEMA requires
FEMA hasn't published a residential structure count for Van Wert 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, 0.3% of all residential structures in Van Wert County carry flood coverage voluntarily or otherwise — relevant because most NFIP claims nationally come from outside the mapped SFHA.
Where Van Wert County ranks
Among the 3144 US counties FEMA scores for flood hazard, Van Wert County ranks 2143 — 1 being the highest hazard nationally — and 1476 by population among all 3144 counties covered here, where 1 is the largest. Van Wert County, Ohio is home to about 28,887 people across 409.15 square miles of land.
Checking a specific address in Van Wert County
Across all of Van Wert County's 12,716 residential structures, 43 carry an NFIP policy today — a county-wide count that still can't tell you one address's own mapped zone.
Where Van Wert County's figures come from
Every figure on this page traces to a named FEMA dataset, documented in the methodology guide. Van Wert 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.