Is Wheeler County, TX in a flood zone?
FEMA's National Risk Index puts Wheeler County's flood hazard at the 7.7th percentile nationally — 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 every 2 years. County-wide, not parcel-specific: FEMA's real flood-zone map is queried live, never shipped as a download.
Wheeler County's flood-insurance compliance gap
Wheeler 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 Wheeler County, not just the ones FEMA mandates, 0.3% carry an NFIP policy — most flood damage nationally happens outside the mapped high-risk zone, so that broader number matters too.
Where Wheeler County ranks
Wheeler County sits at rank 2916 of 3144 counties on FEMA's flood hazard scale (1 is worst) and rank 2831 of 3144 by population (1 is biggest). About 4,824 people live in Wheeler County, Texas, spread over 914.533 square miles.
Your street may differ from Wheeler County's average
7 of Wheeler County's 2,458 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 Wheeler County's numbers. See the data quality guide for why Wheeler County, like hundreds of other counties, doesn't get a clean compliance percentage.