How much flood risk does Wabasha County actually carry?
Wabasha County lands at the 61.1th percentile of FEMA's National Risk Index for flooding, "Relatively Low" territory — below the national norm for flood hazard — with the hazard driven by inland rivers and flash flooding rather than the coast — FEMA's model puts a flood event here at about 2.1 times a year. 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
Wabasha 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 Wabasha County, not just the ones FEMA mandates, 0.5% carry an NFIP policy — most flood damage nationally happens outside the mapped high-risk zone, so that broader number matters too.
Wabasha County against the rest of the country
Wabasha County sits at rank 1280 of 3144 counties on FEMA's flood hazard scale (1 is worst) and rank 1740 of 3144 by population (1 is biggest). Wabasha County, Minnesota covers 522.965 square miles and counts roughly 21,574 residents.
Your street may differ from Wabasha County's average
FEMA counts 13,927 residential structures in Wabasha County overall, 64 of them carrying some form of NFIP coverage — but a lender or insurer cares about one parcel, not that county total.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly which FEMA and Census tables feed Wabasha County's numbers. See the data quality guide for why Wabasha County, like hundreds of other counties, doesn't get a clean compliance percentage.