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Benewah County Flood Insurance Claims

National Flood Insurance Program, 19802018 · 6th highest paid in Idaho

Claims
34
Total paid
$618K
Average / claim
$18K
Building / contents
$527K / $91K

Paid by decade

1980s$17K · 2 claims
1990s$571K · 24 claims
2000s$25K · 5 claims
2010s$5K · 3 claims

Worst years by dollars paid

1996$527K17 claims
1997$44K6 claims
1980$15K1 claims
2009$11K2 claims
2008$11K2 claims

Full disaster history for Benewah County

Most-paid counties in Idaho

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.