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Beaufort County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1979–2026 · 4th highest paid in South Carolina
Claims
4,968
Total paid
$80.6M
Average / claim
$16K
Building / contents
$70.8M / $9.8M
Paid by decade
1970s$206K · 78 claims
1980s$700K · 191 claims
1990s$4.0M · 790 claims
2000s$1.7M · 144 claims
2010s$71.4M · 3,621 claims
2020s$2.6M · 144 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2016 | $55.4M | 2,698 claims |
| 2017 | $14.2M | 728 claims |
| 1994 | $3.2M | 503 claims |
| 2024 | $970K | 56 claims |
| 2021 | $714K | 28 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.