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Avery County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1979–2024 · 29th highest paid in North Carolina
Claims
288
Total paid
$14.8M
Average / claim
$52K
Building / contents
$13.1M / $1.7M
Paid by decade
1970s$845 · 1 claims
1980s$14K · 3 claims
1990s$307K · 31 claims
2000s$2.0M · 92 claims
2010s$27K · 17 claims
2020s$12.5M · 144 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2024 | $12.4M | 137 claims |
| 2004 | $2.0M | 83 claims |
| 1995 | $211K | 17 claims |
| 1994 | $94K | 12 claims |
| 2021 | $27K | 7 claims |
Full disaster history for Avery 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.