Is Wallowa County, OR in a flood zone?
FEMA's National Risk Index puts Wallowa County's flood hazard at the 48.9th percentile nationally — 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 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.
Wallowa County's flood-insurance compliance gap
Wallowa 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 Wallowa County, not just the ones FEMA mandates, 0.9% carry an NFIP policy — most flood damage nationally happens outside the mapped high-risk zone, so that broader number matters too.
Wallowa County against the rest of the country
Wallowa County sits at rank 1669 of 3144 counties on FEMA's flood hazard scale (1 is worst) and rank 2617 of 3144 by population (1 is biggest). Wallowa County, Oregon covers 3,145.897 square miles and counts roughly 7,522 residents.
Checking a specific address in Wallowa County
44 of Wallowa County's 4,891 residential structures carry flood coverage of some kind, per FEMA's latest count — useful context, not a substitute for checking one parcel.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly which FEMA and Census tables feed Wallowa County's numbers. See the data quality guide for why Wallowa County, like hundreds of other counties, doesn't get a clean compliance percentage.