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Ascension Parish Flood Insurance Claims

National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2026 · 9th highest paid in Louisiana

Claims
6,783
Total paid
$349.3M
Average / claim
$52K
Building / contents
$309.3M / $40.0M

Paid by decade

1970s$1.2M · 194 claims
1980s$4.6M · 601 claims
1990s$4.1M · 493 claims
2000s$8.2M · 703 claims
2010s$318.5M · 4,432 claims
2020s$12.8M · 360 claims

Worst years by dollars paid

2016$309.2M3,947 claims
2021$10.7M268 claims
2001$4.4M355 claims
2014$4.0M153 claims
2012$3.6M228 claims

Full disaster history for Ascension Parish →

Most-paid counties in Louisiana

Orleans Parish$7.2BJefferson Parish$3.5BSt. Bernard Parish$2.2BSt. Tammany Parish$1.8BEast Baton Rouge Parish$1.3BLivingston Parish$829.8MSt. John the Baptist Parish$654.1MPlaquemines Parish$378.4M

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.