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Beaufort County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2026 · 4th highest paid in North Carolina
Claims
9,462
Total paid
$125.2M
Average / claim
$13K
Building / contents
$109.2M / $16.0M
Paid by decade
1970s$476 · 3 claims
1980s$190K · 55 claims
1990s$53.0M · 5,158 claims
2000s$6.9M · 871 claims
2010s$63.9M · 3,224 claims
2020s$1.3M · 151 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2011 | $36.9M | 1,684 claims |
| 1999 | $26.4M | 2,500 claims |
| 2018 | $23.3M | 1,177 claims |
| 1996 | $17.5M | 1,500 claims |
| 1998 | $9.1M | 1,142 claims |
Full disaster history for Beaufort 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.