Is Yellow Medicine County, MN in a flood zone?
FEMA's National Risk Index puts Yellow Medicine County's flood hazard at the 29.3th 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. This describes the county, not any one street — FEMA only publishes exact parcel zones through a live map service.
Who actually carries the flood insurance FEMA requires
Yellow Medicine 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 Yellow Medicine County, not just the ones FEMA mandates, 0.2% carry an NFIP policy — most flood damage nationally happens outside the mapped high-risk zone, so that broader number matters too.
Where Yellow Medicine County ranks
Yellow Medicine County sits at rank 2278 of 3144 counties on FEMA's flood hazard scale (1 is worst) and rank 2462 of 3144 by population (1 is biggest). Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota is home to about 9,373 people across 759.101 square miles of land.
What to do next if you own or are buying in Yellow Medicine County
Across all of Yellow Medicine County's 4,909 residential structures, 11 carry an NFIP policy today — a county-wide count that still can't tell you one address's own mapped zone.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly which FEMA and Census tables feed Yellow Medicine County's numbers. See the data quality guide for why Yellow Medicine County, like hundreds of other counties, doesn't get a clean compliance percentage.