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Amherst County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2018 · 70th highest paid in Virginia
Claims
53
Total paid
$756K
Average / claim
$14K
Building / contents
$402K / $354K
Paid by decade
1970s$12K · 5 claims
1980s$323K · 17 claims
1990s$259K · 24 claims
2000s$42K · 1 claims
2010s$121K · 6 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 1985 | $269K | 6 claims |
| 1996 | $218K | 12 claims |
| 2018 | $116K | 1 claims |
| 2003 | $42K | 1 claims |
| 1989 | $33K | 3 claims |
Full disaster history for Amherst County →
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Source: FEMA OpenFEMA, NFIP Redacted Claims v3 (OpenFEMA NfipClaims v3, retrieved 2026-09) — dollars actually paid on closed claims, summed from individual claim transactions. This is a record of the past. It is not a flood-risk forecast, an insurance rating, or a judgment about any specific property. For current risk see FEMA's Flood Map Service Center and National Risk Index.