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Levy County, FL
44 FEMA disaster declarations (1972-2026), with a FEMA National Risk Index rating of Relatively Low. Most common hazard: Hurricane.
- 44
- FEMA declarations
- 25
- Major disasters
- 66
- NRI risk · Relatively Low
- Hurricane
- Top hazard
The verdict
Two federal records point in the busier direction for Levy County. Its 44 FEMA declarations are 9% above the Florida county mean and exceed the count for 98% of the 3,266 counties in this registry. Separately, FEMA's National Risk Index places it in the riskiest 34%, based on modeled expected annual loss, social vulnerability, and community resilience.
- Riskiest 34%
- of U.S. counties for FEMA National Risk Index score
- Relatively Low
- FEMA National Risk Index rating
- 44
- FEMA declarations vs 21 national county avg
- 1,314
- NFIP flood insurance claims filed
FEMA's National Risk Index and its declaration registry are separate measures. This county's registry includes Fire Management Assistance (FM) records, which are not presidential disaster declarations, alongside Major Disaster (DR) and Emergency (EM) records.
FEMA OpenFEMA declaration desk
County FIPS 12075 · Levy County 44 declarations · rank 56/3,266
DECL-HEAVY · MAJOR-MID · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · NRI-LOW · ACT-HIGH · TYPE-LEAD · VS-ST-ABOVE
- DECL-HEAVY 44
- MAJOR-MID 57%
- RANK-UPPER #56
- PHOTO-FINISH Pasco
- NRI-LOW 66
- ACT-HIGH High
- TYPE-LEAD Hurricane
- VS-ST-ABOVE +9%
Nearest declaration peer: Pasco, FL (0 declaration gap)
FEMA Disaster Declarations Summaries v2 filing stamps for this county register. Read with this county → · Florida state profile
Levy County among high-volume declaration counties
FEMA declaration records among Levy County and nearest peers by total count
- Los Angeles · largest
Los Angeles · largest
88 declarations
- Dixie · near
Dixie · near
44 declarations
- Levy · this county
Levy · this county
44 declarations
- McClain · near
McClain · near
44 declarations
- Pasco · near
Pasco · near
44 declarations
- Ujelang · smallest 1
Ujelang · smallest
1 declarations
What this shows Levy County carries 44 FEMA declaration records, ranked 56 of 3,266 counties in this registry.
Where Levy County ranks in the national declaration registry
Levy County vs. high-volume counties in this registry
FEMA disaster declarations, all-time · Levy County
44 Top 2% higher than 98% of 3,266 counties
Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more counties. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source FEMA Disaster Declarations Summaries v2 · 2026-08-25
Levy County's FEMA Risk Index score
What does Levy County's hazard record show?
Reading the federal records together
FEMA's NFIP table contains a substantial paid-claim history for this county: 1,314 claims and $55.0M in payments. PlainHazard labels 500 or more claims a heavy registry record; that is a reporting bucket, not an official FEMA risk grade. The average paid claim was $41.9K. NFIP totals exclude uninsured flood losses and do not measure how many properties currently carry a policy.
The declaration register points in the busier direction. Levy County's 44 federal records stand 9% above the Florida county mean of 40.4. That comparison describes how often federal action was recorded, including any Major Disaster, Emergency, and Fire Management entries shown on this page; it does not convert the count into future probability.
FEMA National Risk Index
This county carries a high composite score on FEMA's National Risk Index, 66.1/100, rated Relatively Low. Its Expected Annual Loss rating is Relatively Low (roughly $15.3M in annualized losses), and a Very High social-vulnerability profile combined with Very Low community resilience shapes how much of that raw exposure becomes realized harm. Among the 18 modeled hazards, Hurricane carries the county's highest rating, a mid-range Relatively Moderate. FEMA's modeled frequency puts that hazard at roughly once every 4 years here, based on 105 historical events on record.
78 /100
Historical Activity Index
Very High historical activity
Levy County, FL · PlainHazard-derived composite from federal records
This 0–100 index is an explicit PlainHazard composite from FEMA declaration history only on the county surface (this DB has no county-level NOAA damage row) . It is not FEMA's National Risk Index, not a forecast, and not a safety, insurance, or preparedness rating. Open the calculator · Methodology
FEMA Declarations (1953–present) Very High
30/30
44 OpenFEMA declarations, full ingest window (2.1x national county average)
County Disaster Density High
14/25
44 declarations (1.1x state county average of 40)
Major Disaster Share High
14/25
25 of 44 declarations are major disasters (57%)
Hazard Diversity Very High
20/20
9 different disaster types declared in Levy County
FEMA NRI 8-hazard radar - Levy County
How to read this radar
Each axis: NRI risk rating (Very Low-Very High) on a 0-100 scale. Rounder = broad exposure; spiky = one or two hazards dominate.
Major Disaster share
57%
Major-heavy
NRI risk score
66
Relatively Low
Source: FEMA National Risk Index Per-county per-hazard ratings, December 2025 release
How often does each hazard strike Levy County?
FEMA's National Risk Index models a historical event count and an annualized frequency for each hazard type. Most hazards are expressed as modeled occurrences per year; FEMA expresses drought and heat-wave frequency as event-days per year. These modeled frequencies are not forecasts.
| Hazard | NRI Risk Rating | Recurrence |
|---|---|---|
| Hurricane | Relatively Moderate | roughly once every 4 years |
| Lightning | Relatively High | an average of 88 times per year |
| Wildfire | Relatively Low | roughly once every 387 years |
| Coastal Flooding | Relatively Moderate | an average of 3.8 times per year |
| Cold Wave | Relatively Moderate | an average of 3.6 times per year |
| Tornado | Relatively Low | roughly once every 2 years |
| Heat Wave | Relatively Low | 2.8 modeled event-days per year |
| Riverine Flooding | Relatively Low | roughly once every 4 years |
| Drought | Relatively Low | 23 modeled event-days per year |
| Strong Wind | Relatively Low | roughly once every 1 years |
| Earthquake | Very Low | roughly once every 1,357 years |
| Landslide | Very Low | roughly once every 8 years |
| Hail | Very Low | an average of 1.2 times per year |
| Winter Weather | Very Low | roughly once every 19 years |
Source: FEMA National Risk Index Modeled annualized frequency; drought and heat wave use event-days/year, December 2025 release
Disaster Types
Hurricane 21
Severe Storm 7
Fire 5
Tropical Storm 5
Biological 2
Freezing 1
Tornado 1
Flood 1
Coastal Storm 1
What Hurricane declarations mean here
Hurricane is the most frequent declaration type on Levy County's federal record, 48% of its declarations. Atlantic tropical systems run on a defined season, 1 June to 30 November, with most activity concentrated between August and October; Pacific and territorial basins run on their own calendars. A single named storm routinely produces one declaration number covering a long corridor of counties at once, well inland as well as on the coast, which is why an affected county's count can jump by several in one year without several separate events having occurred.
One practical distinction matters when reading these records: a tropical declaration usually bundles wind, storm surge and inland rainfall flooding under a single incident, but the insurance behind them is split. Wind damage falls to property insurers, while flood and surge damage is covered only under a separate National Flood Insurance Program policy. That is why a county can show heavy declaration activity and a comparatively small NFIP claims record, or the reverse.
Declaration counts describe past federal action. They are a record of what was declared, not a forecast of future hazard probability.
Declaration Types
What DR / EM / FM mean
FEMA categorizes declarations as Major Disasters (DR), Emergencies (EM), or Fire Management Assistance (FM).
Major Disaster - 25 56.8%
of all 44 declarations
Emergency - 16 36.4%
of all 44 declarations
Fire Management - 3 6.8%
of all 44 declarations
FEMA Declarations Timeline
| Year | Declarations | |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | |
| 2025 | 2 | |
| 2024 | 4 | |
| 2023 | 4 | |
| 2022 | 2 | |
| 2021 | 3 | |
| 2020 | 2 | |
| 2019 | 2 | |
| 2017 | 2 | |
| 2016 | 1 | |
| 2012 | 1 | |
| 2009 | 1 | |
| 2008 | 1 | |
| 2005 | 2 | |
| 2004 | 4 | |
Show 10 earlier declaration years
| 2003 | 1 | |
| 2001 | 1 | |
| 2000 | 1 | |
| 1999 | 2 | |
| 1998 | 2 | |
| 1997 | 1 | |
| 1993 | 1 | |
| 1985 | 1 | |
| 1973 | 1 | |
| 1972 | 1 | |
Disaster Declarations
How the 44 FEMA declarations break into federal action codes (DR / EM / FM). Same DISTINCT grain as the table below.
Download these 44 declarations as CSV . FEMA source data is public domain; our derived presentation is CC0.
| DR# | Title | Type | Incident | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5632 | COW CREEK FIRE | FM | Fire | 2026-04-23 |
| 4834 | HURRICANE MILTON | DR | Hurricane | 2024-10-11 |
| 3622 | HURRICANE MILTON | EM | Hurricane | 2024-10-07 |
| 4828 | HURRICANE HELENE | DR | Hurricane | 2024-09-28 |
| 3615 | TROPICAL STORM HELENE | EM | Tropical Storm | 2024-09-24 |
| 4806 | HURRICANE DEBBY | DR | Tropical Storm | 2024-08-10 |
| 3605 | TROPICAL STORM DEBBY | EM | Tropical Storm | 2024-08-03 |
| 4734 | HURRICANE IDALIA | DR | Hurricane | 2023-08-31 |
| 3596 | TROPICAL STORM IDALIA | EM | Tropical Storm | 2023-08-28 |
| 4680 | HURRICANE NICOLE | DR | Hurricane | 2022-12-13 |
| 3587 | TROPICAL STORM NICOLE | EM | Tropical Storm | 2022-11-08 |
| 4673 | HURRICANE IAN | DR | Hurricane | 2022-09-29 |
| 3584 | TROPICAL STORM IAN | EM | Hurricane | 2022-09-24 |
| 3562 | TROPICAL STORM FRED | EM | Hurricane | 2021-08-16 |
| 3561 | TROPICAL STORM ELSA | EM | Severe Storm | 2021-07-04 |
| 3551 | HURRICANE ETA | EM | Hurricane | 2020-11-11 |
| 4486 | COVID-19 PANDEMIC | DR | Biological | 2020-03-25 |
| 3432 | COVID-19 | EM | Biological | 2020-03-13 |
| 3419 | HURRICANE DORIAN | EM | Hurricane | 2019-08-30 |
| 3405 | HURRICANE MICHAEL | EM | Hurricane | 2018-10-09 |
Show 24 earlier declaration records
| DR# | Title | Type | Incident | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4337 | HURRICANE IRMA | DR | Hurricane | 2017-09-10 |
| 3385 | HURRICANE IRMA | EM | Hurricane | 2017-09-05 |
| 4280 | HURRICANE HERMINE | DR | Hurricane | 2016-09-28 |
| 4068 | TROPICAL STORM DEBBY | DR | Severe Storm | 2012-07-03 |
| 1831 | SEVERE STORMS, FLOODING, TORNADOES, AND STRAIGHT-LINE WINDS | DR | Severe Storm | 2009-04-21 |
| 3288 | TROPICAL STORM FAY | EM | Severe Storm | 2008-08-21 |
| 3220 | HURRICANE KATRINA EVACUATION | EM | Hurricane | 2005-09-05 |
| 1595 | HURRICANE DENNIS | DR | Hurricane | 2005-07-10 |
| 1561 | HURRICANE JEANNE | DR | Hurricane | 2004-09-26 |
| 1551 | HURRICANE IVAN | DR | Hurricane | 2004-09-16 |
| 1545 | HURRICANE FRANCES | DR | Hurricane | 2004-09-04 |
| 1539 | TROPICAL STORM BONNIE AND HURRICANE CHARLEY | DR | Hurricane | 2004-08-13 |
| 1481 | SEVERE STORMS AND FLOODING | DR | Severe Storm | 2003-07-29 |
| 1359 | SEVERE FREEZE | DR | Freezing | 2001-02-05 |
| 2303 | FL, WACCASASSA FIRE COMPLEX | FM | Fire | 2000-05-29 |
| 3139 | FL-FIRES 04/15/99 | EM | Fire | 1999-04-27 |
| 2252 | FL-FIRES 04/13/99 | FM | Fire | 1999-04-15 |
| 1223 | EXTREME FIRE HAZARD | DR | Fire | 1998-06-18 |
| 1195 | SEVERE STORMS, HIGH WINDS, TORNADOES, AND FLOODING | DR | Severe Storm | 1998-01-06 |
| 1141 | TROPICAL STORM JOSEPHINE | DR | Severe Storm | 1996-10-15 |
| 982 | TORNADOES, FLOODING, HIGH WINDS & TIDES, FREEZING | DR | Tornado | 1993-03-13 |
| 743 | HURRICANE ELENA | DR | Hurricane | 1985-09-12 |
| 387 | SEVERE STORMS & FLOODING | DR | Flood | 1973-05-26 |
| 337 | TROPICAL STORM AGNES | DR | Coastal Storm | 1972-06-23 |
Storm Events in Florida
Statewide NOAA context only. PlainHazard does not currently attribute these state totals to Levy County.
| Storm Type | Events | Fatalities | Injuries | Property Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thunderstorm Wind | 5,243 | 17 | 45 | $24.8M |
| Hail | 1,012 | 0 | 0 | $564.6K |
| Heavy Rain | 865 | 2 | 3 | $200.0K |
| Flood | 826 | 9 | 0 | $2.0B |
| Tropical Storm | 767 | 92 | 6 | $4.9B |
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database State-level aggregated data, 2015-2025
NFIP Flood Insurance Claims
Total Claims
1,314
Total Paid
$55.0M
Avg Per Claim
$41.9K
Source: FEMA National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) OpenFEMA Claims Data
FEMA National Risk Index
Overall Risk
Relatively Low
Score: 66.1/100
Expected Annual Loss
Relatively Low
$15.3M/year
Social Vulnerability
Very High
Community Resilience
Very Low
Hazard Risk Breakdown
Hurricane Relatively Moderate
Lightning Relatively High
Wildfire Relatively Low
Coastal Flooding Relatively Moderate
Cold Wave Relatively Moderate
Tornado Relatively Low
Heat Wave Relatively Low
Riverine Flooding Relatively Low
Drought Relatively Low
Strong Wind Relatively Low
Earthquake Very Low
Landslide Very Low
Hail Very Low
Winter Weather Very Low
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (NRI) Ratings reflect relative scores among all US counties. Data: hazards.fema.gov/nri
The model's sharpest exposure here: Hurricane
Hurricane exposure in the model bundles the three ways a tropical system does harm, which arrive on different timescales and are insured differently: wind, storm surge on the coast, and rainfall flooding that can reach far inland well after landfall.
For Levy County the two measures on this page point the same way: Hurricane is the county's highest-rated modeled hazard (Relatively Moderate), and Hurricane declarations also lead its federal record. Where the model and the declaration history agree, the reading is comparatively straightforward, the hazard is both expected and repeatedly realised.
National Risk Index ratings are modeled estimates of expected annual loss, not predictions of what will happen in any given year.
Data-matched county comparisons
Levy County's closest FEMA peer: Pottawatomie County, OK
Comparisons use published FEMA declaration fields plus the National Risk Index composite for Levy County. Record similarity, not a safety rating.
Closest declaration profiles
Levy County shows 44 FEMA declarations, led by Hurricane.
Similar Major-disaster share
Levy County: 25 of 44 of its declarations are Major.
Similar modeled NRI score
Levy County: NRI composite 66.1 (Relatively Low).
How these peers are chosen
Cohort: Published U.S. county equivalents outside the source state or territory. Each metric keeps six ETL candidates; three unique destinations are shown after de-duplicating across axes. Declaration-volume ranking combines count and Major-disaster share and prefers a different leading incident type; Major-share ranks the Major fraction adjusted for volume; NRI ranks the modeled composite score only.
Retained FEMA snapshot feed for Levy County - capture-dated entries only.
Compare beyond this state
Nationwide peers by NRI score & FEMA declaration volume
Two PlainHazard-derived comparison paths for Levy County: nearest out-of-state National Risk Index composite and nearest FEMA declaration count (floor ≥5 records). Record similarity only, not a forecast of the next hazard.
Similar NRI composite
Nearest out-of-state counties by FEMA NRI score. This county: 66.1 (Relatively Low).
Similar declaration volume
Nearest out-of-state counties by FEMA declaration count. This county: 44. NRI peers are excluded so the two link sets stay distinct.
Further reading for this county
Understanding disaster data
Levy County's NFIP claims file (1,314 claims) and FEMA declaration history measure different federal records - this guide separates them from modeled NRI risk.
More PlainHazard guides
- Most disaster-prone counties - U.S. counties ranked by FEMA declaration totals.
- Understanding disaster data - declarations vs storm events vs NRI scores.
- Preparing for natural disasters - household checklist (not county-specific advice).
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the most common disaster type in Levy County?
The most common disaster type in Levy County is Hurricane, with 21 declarations. Other disaster types include Severe Storm (7), Fire (5), Tropical Storm (5).
How does Levy County's FEMA declaration record compare with the Florida average?
FEMA lists 44 declaration records for Levy County. That is 9% above the Florida county mean of 40.4. Its count is also 112% above the national county mean of 20.7. A larger declaration history records more federal actions; it is not a forecast of the county's next hazard.
How many major FEMA disaster declarations has Levy County received?
Levy County has received 25 major disaster declarations, representing 57% of all 44 disaster declarations.
How many flood insurance claims has Levy County filed?
Levy County has 1,314 National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) claims totaling $55.0M in payments, with an average of $41.9K per claim.
What was the worst year for disasters in Levy County?
The most active year for disaster declarations in Levy County was 2004, with 4 declarations. The county has FEMA disaster data spanning 1972 to 2026.
What is the FEMA National Risk Index score for Levy County?
According to the FEMA National Risk Index, Levy County, Florida has an overall risk score of 66.1 out of 100 (Relatively Low). Social vulnerability here rates Very High, while community resilience comes in at Very Low. The Expected Annual Loss (EAL) score is Relatively Low, representing $15.3M in annualized losses.
Which natural hazard poses the greatest risk to Levy County?
Based on FEMA NRI data, the highest-risk natural hazard in Levy County is Hurricane (risk rating: Relatively Moderate). Other significant hazards include Lightning (Relatively High) and Wildfire (Relatively Low). FEMA's modeled event frequency puts hurricane here at roughly once every 4 years, drawn from 105 historical events on record. FEMA derives these ratings from historical event frequency, the assets exposed, and the community's vulnerability profile.
Data Sources & Methodology
Disaster declaration data comes from the FEMA OpenFEMA Disaster Declarations Summaries v2 API, which includes all federally declared disasters, emergencies, and fire management assistance grants.
Storm event data is sourced from the NOAA Storm Events Database (2015-2025), which tracks significant weather events including thunderstorms, tornadoes, floods, and winter storms.
Flood insurance data comes from the FEMA National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) OpenFEMA claims dataset.
This data is provided for informational purposes only. FEMA disaster declarations represent federal response actions and may not capture all local emergencies or weather events.
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