Compositional and contextual characteristics of a place capture the collective fnancial, physical, human, and social capital of an area and its ability to prevent, plan for, and recover from severe weather events. Research that examines the compositional and contextual characteristics of places with elevated food risk is largely limited to urban-centric analyses and case studies. However, rural areas of the USA are not immune to fooding. In this paper, we integrate social and physical data to identify the social correlates of food risk and determine if and how they vary across the rural–urban continuum for all census tracts in the coterminous USA. Our results show that risk of fooding is higher in rural tracts, in tracts with larger relative shares of socioeconomically vulnerable populations, and in tracts reliant on food-vulnerable industries. We also show that compositional social correlates of fooding are not consistent across rural–urban areas. This work widens the scope of discourse on fooding to attend to the heterogeneity of social correlates and the implications for policy and future research.