Levees / Kentucky / 3905000032

Paducah Levee System

Paducah, McCracken County, Kentucky. On the Ohio River. USACE records 23,547 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Accredited Levee SystemUSACE oversight
People behind it
23,547
USACE figure
Structures
8,739
in the leveed area
Levee length
9.4
miles, plus 2.65 of floodwall
Leveed area
17.31
square miles
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The federal record

System ID
3905000032
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Accredited Levee System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Moderate
Inspection rating
Not published
Inspection date
12/12/2023
Rehabilitation programme
Active
Responsible sponsor
City of Paducah
Waterway
Ohio River
Segments
1
USACE district
Louisville, Nashville
USACE division
Great Lakes and Ohio River Division
FEMA region
4
Congressional district
01
Consequence estimate
$5.42 billion
Flood of record
02/13/1950

What this page does not tell you

It does not say whether any particular address is protected. A FEMA accreditation status describes this system measured against a design flood event, and USACE states that the database may not represent the totality of levees in the United States. If you need to know what applies to a specific property, your local floodplain administrator holds that answer. How to read an accreditation status.

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Where it is

Source: USACE National Levee Database, system 3905000032. Refreshed 2026-09-10. Values are reproduced as published. USACE updates the database irregularly and without a change feed, so the refresh date above is the age of what you are reading.