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Bell County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2026 · 15th highest paid in Kentucky
Claims
566
Total paid
$7.3M
Average / claim
$13K
Building / contents
$5.4M / $1.9M
Paid by decade
1970s$4K · 4 claims
1980s$503K · 115 claims
1990s$1.9M · 193 claims
2000s$464K · 64 claims
2010s$3.3M · 145 claims
2020s$1.2M · 45 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2011 | $3.1M | 119 claims |
| 1998 | $663K | 34 claims |
| 2021 | $576K | 19 claims |
| 2020 | $501K | 17 claims |
| 2002 | $437K | 47 claims |
Full disaster history for Bell 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.