Wallace County, KS Flood Zone & Flood Risk Data
Wallace County, KS flood risk explained
Flood hazard in Wallace County sits at the 3.3th national percentile, 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 a year. This describes the county, not any one street, FEMA only publishes exact parcel zones through a live map service.
Wallace County's flood-insurance compliance gap
FEMA hasn't published a residential structure count for Wallace 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% of all residential structures in Wallace County carry flood coverage voluntarily or otherwise, relevant because most NFIP claims nationally come from outside the mapped SFHA.
Where Wallace County ranks
Among the 3144 US counties FEMA scores for flood hazard, Wallace County ranks 3047, 1 being the highest hazard nationally, and 3081 by population among all 3144 counties covered here, where 1 is the largest. Wallace County, Kansas covers 913.652 square miles and counts roughly 1,472 residents.
Your street may differ from Wallace County's average
Across all of Wallace County's 1,153 residential structures, 0 carry an NFIP policy today, a county-wide count that still can't tell you one address's own mapped zone.
Where Wallace County's figures come from
Every figure on this page traces to a named FEMA dataset, documented in the methodology guide. Wallace 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.