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Barnstable County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2026 · 3rd highest paid in Massachusetts
Claims
3,184
Total paid
$42.9M
Average / claim
$13K
Building / contents
$38.2M / $4.7M
Paid by decade
1970s$238K · 126 claims
1980s$1.3M · 272 claims
1990s$22.4M · 1,812 claims
2000s$1.9M · 211 claims
2010s$12.3M · 591 claims
2020s$4.7M · 172 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 1991 | $19.9M | 1,362 claims |
| 2018 | $8.8M | 294 claims |
| 2022 | $2.7M | 60 claims |
| 2023 | $1.0M | 57 claims |
| 2015 | $900K | 59 claims |
Full disaster history for Barnstable 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.